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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : metronymic from the Yiddish female given name Henye, a pet form of Hanna. The initial G is due to Russian influence, since Russian has no H and alters H in borrowed words to G.

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