Family name origins & meanings
- French : from pet form of any of the compound personal names formed with gamal, related to Old Norse gamall, Old German gamel ‘old’, ‘aged’.
- Possibly a respelling of German Gammelin, a habitational name from a place in Mecklenburg called Gammelin.
- A family of this name from Blois was in Trois Rivières, Quebec, by 1661.