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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name for someone from Glessen near Cologne or from Glesse on the river of that name near Hameln.
  • German : perhaps a reduced form of Swiss Glesser or Glessmann, variants of Glaser.

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