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Gentes

Updated: April 23, 2025
Updated: April 23, 2025

Family name origins & meanings

  • Possibly a variant of French Gent.
  • Dutch and German : patronymic from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with gand ‘spell’, such as Gandolfus.

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