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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French and Swiss French : from the Old French personal name Gontier, composed of the Germanic elements gund ‘battle’ + hari, heri ‘army’. Compare Gunter.
  • A family called Gonthier from Paris was in Quebec city by 1676.

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