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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a short form of the various personal names formed with gār, gēr ‘spear’, ‘lance’ (see, for example, Gerhardt, Gerhold), or from a field name, from the same word used to denote a wedge-shaped plot.

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