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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : probably a variant of Gehm, from an old personal name based on Old High German gam ‘joy’, ‘play’.
  • German : variant of Köhm, a Low German variant of Kümmel (see Kimmel).

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