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Updated August 21, 2024

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name for someone from Günzburg in Swabia, which derives its name from the river Günz (in early Latin records Guntia, probably of Celtic origin) + Old High German burg ‘fortress’, ‘walled town’.

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