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So still nobody knows the origin of this?

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I have been able to locate a Romanian word, "gogonea", which apparently is a kind of pickle, from a Romanian language teacher residing in my town, HOWEVEWR:
- according to him there's no way the Romanian language would have ADDED the C there (which apparently is pronounced as a "ch" when followed by E and I) to have GogonCea as a result, since the tendency in the language is the exact opposite, to do away with any africates that appear in such positions in words
- he says that usually surnames in that language are either referring to profession, place of origin, or they are patronymic, not from obscure names for certain kinds of foods...

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So apparently I've hit another dead end, since this seems like it's just another good ol' coincidence. :(

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He also said the "-cea" ending could suggest a Slavic ending for a place of origin, but I haven't been able to locate any placename named Gogon, Gogo, Gogonc, Gogont, Gogonch, etc, anywhere except for some town in Thailand, which I'm pretty sure is not connected to this name. :p