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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : unexplained.
  • Danish : habitational name from any of several places named Gjelbjerg.
  • German : from a Germanic personal name based on a cognate of modern gelten originally ‘to sacrifice’, then ‘to recompense’, ‘to retaliate’.

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