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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : possibly from a Germanic personal name with the initital element Gid-, cognate with Old English gidd ‘song’.
  • German : variant of Kettinger, from Middle High German kote ‘cottage’, hence a topographic name or an indirect occupational name for a day laborer.

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