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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : from Middle Dutch gans; a metonymic occupational name for someone who kept or sold geese; alternatively, it may have been a nickname for someone thought to resemble the bird, or, in some cases, a habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by a sign depicting geese.

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