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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish (Tipperary and mid-Ulster) : unexplained. It may be a reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giodaire, from giodar ‘haste’.
  • Probably an Americanized spelling of South German Geider, a nickname for a braggart, Middle High German giuder. Compare Geitner.

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