Gogol

From Russian Го́голь (Gógolʹ) and Ukrainian Го́голь (Hóholʹ). The surname is from Ukrainian го́голь (hóholʹ, “common goldeneye, Bucephala clangula”) < Proto-Slavic *gogolь.

Compare Russian го́голь (gógolʹ), Belarusian го́галь (hóhalʹ), Old East Slavic гоголь (gogolĭ), Polish gogol.

Gogol

1. A Russian and Ukrainian surname.

• Gogolian

• “Gogol”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Gogol”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Gogol”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “Gogol”, in Collins English Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔ.ɡɔl/
• Rhymes: -ɔɡɔl
• Syllabification: Go‧gol

Gogol m pers

1. a male surname

Gogol f (indeclinable)

1. a female surname

• “Gogol”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022