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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name meaning ‘servant of Gay’.
  • French : from a Germanic personal name Gaidman or Gaidmar, of which the first element is gaida ‘point (of a lance)’.
  • German (Gaymann) : variant of Gau 1, reinforced by the addition of man ‘man’.
  • Americanized spelling of German Gehmann (see Gehman).

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