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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a medieval personal name of which the original form was Latin Aegidius, from Greek aigidion ‘kid’, ‘young goat’. Compare English Giles.
  • German : in some instances, an altered spelling of Geil.

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