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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : reduced form of McGath.
  • English : variant of Garth.
  • North German (Gäth) : variant of Gäde (see Gaede).
  • North German : topographic name from Middle Low German gate ‘street’, ‘alley’.

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