Save Type Surname Usage English (American), Dutch (Americanized) Pronounced Pron. BLUD-guwd(American English) [key] Meaning & History Anglicized form of Dutch Bloetgoet. The progenitor of the American Bloodgood family was Francis Bloodgood, a 17th-century Dutch emigrant to Flushing, Queens, New York, originally named Frans Jansen Bloetgoet.