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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a vernacular short form of the Latin personal name Gervasius, which was borne by a martyr and patron saint of Breisach on the Rhine.
  • Dutch : habitational name from a place named with Middle Dutch wase, waes ‘marsh’, ‘wetland’.

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