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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swiss German and South German : occupational name or nickname from Middle High German gumpen, gumpeln ‘to clown’.
  • Swiss German and South German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with gund ‘battle’, ‘war’. Compare Gombert.

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