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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : nickname for a man with red hair, from Yiddish gel ‘red-headed’, Middle High German gel ‘yellow’, German gelb (see Geller).
  • German : unexplained.
  • English : from a short form of the personal name Julian.
  • Variant of French Gille.

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