Name: Gottschalk
Gender: Male
Usage: Gottschalk is not a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Gottschalk are in general originating from Germany.
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Numerology of the first name Gottschalk: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 8. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: ambitious, successful, realistic, powerful, authoritative, courageous, leading.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Leader, Visionary
Ruling planet: Saturn
Colors: Black, Purple
Gemstones: Ruby, Amethyst
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The name Gottschalk is ranked on the 106,963rd position of the most used names. It means that this name is rarely used.
We estimate that there are at least 300 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.001% of the population. The name Gottschalk has ten characters. It means that it is relatively long-length, compared to the other names in our database.
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History and Origin
Gottschalk or Godescalc (Old High German) is a male German name that can be translated literally as servant of God. Latin forms include Godeschalcus and Godescalcus.
Given name:
- Godescalc of Benevento, 8th-century Lombard duke
- Godescalc (fl. 781–783), Carolingian scribe; author of the Godescalc Evangelistary
- Godescalc of Le Puy, 10th-century bishop, first documented pilgrim of the Via Podiensis
- Gottschalk of Orbais, a 9th-century theologian, poet, and unwilling monk, best known as a hero of the Jansenists and for his conflict with Hincmar
- Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, Bishop of Freising, beneficiary of the 996 Ostarrîchi document
- Gottschalk (Slavic prince), 11th-century Slavic Prince of the Wends (Saint Gottschalk)
- a 12th-century Holstein peasant, protagonist of the Visio Godeschalci
Surname:
- Carl W. Gottschalk (1922–1997) American professor and kidney researcher
- John Gottschalk (born 1943) Newspaper Publisher
- Joseph Gottschalk (1950–2003) American cycling exhibitionist
- Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829–1869) American composer and pianist
- Louis F. Gottschalk (1864–1934) American composer
- Louis A. Gottschalk (1916–2008) American psychiatrist
- Thomas Gottschalk, German entertainer and actor (born 1950)
- Alfred Gottschalk (biochemist), German biochemist
- Alfred Gottschalk (rabbi)
German: religious name, dating from the early Middle Ages, composed of the elements god, got God + scalc servant. St Gotteschalk (d. 1066) was a Wendish prince who was married to a grand-niece of King Canute of England. An earlier Gotteschalk (d. c.868) preached total predestination. In the later Middle Ages the name was for a time characteristically Jewish, used as a translation of the Hebrew names Abdiel or Obadiah. It is now little used by any group.
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