Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Swiss German (also Gässer) and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : topographic name for someone who lived in a side street or alley, from a derivative of Middle High German gazze, German Gasse, Yiddish gas.

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