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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle High German gelīche ‘equal’, ‘even’, ‘appropriate’, an element in numerous habitational names from which the surname may have arisen, for example Gleichen bei Kassel and Gleichen bei Brettach in Württemberg.

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