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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : of uncertain derivation. Black believes it may be local to Dunfermline, where it was first recorded in 1579.
  • South German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with the same root as Middle High German gate ‘companion’, ‘compatible person’.

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