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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for someone who kept, tended, or sold geese, from Middle High German gans ‘goose’.
  • habitational name for someone from a place called Gensen, near Waldsee.

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