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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German, Swiss, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : topographic name for someone who lived in a street in a city, town, or village, Middle High German gazze, German Gasse, Yiddish gas ‘street’, ‘side street’.
  • English : variant of Gash.
  • Altered spelling of German Gast, found in the areas of Swiss settlement.

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