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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English and French : nickname, possibly sometimes applied ironically, from Middle English gente, Old French gent(il) ‘well born’, ‘noble’, ‘courteous’. Compare Gentle.
  • German and English : habitational name for someone from Ghent in Flanders, French name Gand.

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