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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Altered spelling of Swiss German Gnaegi or Gnagy, a topographic name, composed of the prefix ge- + Latin in agro ‘in the field’, denoting someone who lived in or by his field(s) as opposed to in a village.

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