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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from the Austrian dialect word Kitz ‘kid’, ‘fawn’, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who raised or tended goats.
  • German : from a German personal name beginning with Gid-, cognate with Anglo-Saxon gidd ‘song’.

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