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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (common in Bristol) : variant of Gingold, of which the origin is unexplained.
  • Respelling of German Gingel, a common Bavarian surname, derived from a short form of the Germanic personal name Gangulf, composed of the elements gangan ‘to walk or go’ + (w)ulf ‘wolf’.

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