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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : ornamental name or metonymic occupational name for a worker in gold, from Yiddish gildner ‘golden’.
  • German : variant of Güldner (see Guldner).

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