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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : metonymic occupational name for a jeweller, from gemme ‘gem’, ‘precious stone’.
  • German : perhaps a metonymic name derived from a stem Gam-, as in the 16th century female personal name Gemeke.

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