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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Probably a variant spelling of Manx Corlett.
  • Possibly a respelling of German Gurlitt, from a Germanic personal name, Gauralt, formed with a cognate of Old High German garo ‘ready’ + waltan ‘to rule’.

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