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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname for a jovial man, from Middle High German gamd ‘gaiety’, ‘merriment’, or from a Germanic personal name based on Old High German element with the same meaning (see Gamm).
  • French : variant spelling of Gamel.

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