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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Welsh : from the Welsh personal name Gutyn, Guto, a pet form of Gruffydd (see Griffith), with the redundant addition of English patronymic -s.
  • Welsh : possibly also a patronymic from a byname from Welsh cethin ‘dusky’, ‘swarthy’.

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