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Gustav

Name origin: Swedish

Name meaning: Goth

Mahler

Name origin: German (also Mähler) and Jewish (Ashkenazic)

Name meaning: occupational name for a painter, especially a painter of stained glass, from an agent derivative of German malen to paint (Middle High German mālen, Old High German mālōn ‘to mark’, from māl ‘point’, ‘mark’).

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