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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Gero, Kero, a reduced and altered form of the personal name Gerhard (see Gerhardt), or sometimes a nickname for a greedy person, from Middle High German gere ‘greed’.
  • German : from Middle High German kerze ‘candle’, applied as a habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a candle or as a metonymic occupational name for a candle maker.
  • German : from Polish Kierz, a topographic name from kierz ‘small bush’.

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