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)’.