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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from pet form of Gaimo, a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with gaid ‘point of a spear’+ a second element beginning with m- (for examples, see Gayman).
  • Probably an Americanized spelling of German Gehmann (see Gehman). This name is concentrated in SC.

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