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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Gettig 1.
  • Americanized spelling of German Göttinger, a habitational name for someone from Götting in Bavaria or from any of the places called Göttingen in Lower Saxony, Westphalia, Hesse, and Württemberg.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : variant of Oettinger, with an inorganic initial H transformed into G under Russian influence.

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