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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a reduced form of the Latin personal name Gregorius (see Gregory).
  • German : metonymic occupational name for a blacksmith, from a compound of Middle High German gar(e) ‘ready’ + īsen ‘iron’.
  • German : from Gero, a short form of a Germanic personal name composed with ger ‘spear’.

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