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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized form of German Geitlinger : most probably a habitational name for someone from a lost or unidentified place with a name such as Geitlingen.
  • Americanized form of German Geitlinger : alternatively, perhaps, a nickname based on Middle Low German geidlink ‘thrush’.
  • Americanized form of German Geitlinger : a third possibility is a patronymic derivative from Geith or Geidel, personal names based on Langobardic gaida ‘point (of a lance or spear)’.

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