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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : probably a variant of Guest.
  • South German (Güss) : topographic name for someone who lived near a torrent or on a flood plain, from Middle High German güsse ‘flood’, ‘flooding’.
  • German : variant of Geis.

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