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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle High German gāch ‘fast’, ‘rash’; probably a nickname for an impetuous man.
  • Polish : from a pet form of various personal names such as Gabriel, Gaudentius, or Gaweł (see Gall).

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