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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Geller 2.
  • German : from the Germanic personal name Gelhard, a cognate of the verb gelten ‘to sacrifice’, ‘to recompense’.
  • Hungarian (Gellért) : from a personal name composed of the Germanic elements gār, gēr ‘spear’, ‘lance’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’.

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