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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : perhaps a variant of Scottish Guthrie.
  • Possibly an altered spelling of the German occupational name Gutterer, denoting a maker of balloon-shaped glass bottles, or of German Güttrich, from a Germanic personal name formed with god, got ‘god’ or gōd ‘good’ + rih ‘powerful’.

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