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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (western Ashkenazic) : habitational name from Gugenheim in Alsace or, less likely, Jugenheim (earlier Guggenheim) near Bensheim (Hesse). In both cases the second element is from Old High German heim ‘homestead’, while the first is of obscure and disputed etymology.

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