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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from a reduced form of the Germanic personal name Gerwulf, composed of the elements gēr, gār ‘spear’ + wulf ‘wolf’.
  • Greek : patronymic from the genitive case of Greek geros ‘old’, ‘elder’ (see Gero 4).

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