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Guez Judeo-SpanishEither derived from Hebrew גָּזַז
(gazaz) meaning "to shear, to cut (hair)" or Arabic قزاز
(qazzaz) meaning "silk merchant, sericulturist".
Gug KoreanFrom korean hanja 國, 菊, or 鞠. A surname for 19 000 koreans
Guggenheimer JewishOriginally indicated a person from either Gougenheim in Alsace or Jugenheim in Hesse, perhaps meaning "home of Gogo(n)". Gogo(n) is a Germanic personal name
Guha BengaliFrom Bengali গুহা
(guha) meaning "cave" (figuratively "mind" or "heart"), ultimately derived from Sanskrit गुहा
(guha).
Gui ChineseFrom Chinese 桂
(guì) referring to the ancient state of Gui, which existed during the Han dynasty in what is now Guangxi province.
Gui ChineseFrom Chinese 归
(guī) referring to the ancient state of Gui, which existed during the Zhou dynasty in what is now Anhui province.
Guidry French (Cajun), Louisiana CreoleDerived from the given name
Witeric. This surname is particularly associated with Cajuns in Louisiana, United States, who seem all to be descended from Claude
Guédry dit Grivois, who arrived in Acadia before 1671.
Guijarro SpanishSpanish: nickname from guijarro 'pebble' perhaps applied to a man who sold pebbles (used for paving the streets).
Guilbeau FrenchPossibly from Ancient Germanic
wil, meaning "will, power", and Latin
bellus, meaning "beautiful".
Guilder EnglishOccupational name for someone who worked in gold. The derivation is from the Old English pre 7th Century "gyldan" and the Old High German "gold", a refiner, jeweller, or gilder.
Guiles FrenchOf uncertain origin; it could be a variant of French Guill or of English Guile or Giles .
Guimarães PortugueseHabitational name for someone originally from the city of Guimarães in northern Portugal.
Guin FrenchFrom the given name Guin the French form of
Wino a short form of names with the element
win "friend".
Guinan IrishThe surname Guinan comes from the Irish surname O Cuanain (O'Conein and MacConein) and is derived from the Irish Cuinin for "rabbit", son of Dugal. They claim descendancy through the Donnelly line of the native Irish.
Guirguis Ancient Egyptian, CopticThe surname Guirguis is of Egyptian and Coptic origin, primarily associated with Christian families from Egypt. It is a transliteration of the Coptic name
Girgis (Γεώργιος), which is derived from the Greek name
George (Γεώργιος), meaning "farmer" or "earthworker."
Guitry FrenchDerived from the given name
Witeric. A famous bearer of this name was Sacha Guitry (1885-1957), a French actor, playwright, screenwriter and director.
Gujarati IndianDenoted a person of Gujarat descent. From Gujarati
ગુજરાત (
gujrāt), inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀕𑀼𑀚𑁆𑀚𑀭𑀢𑁆𑀢𑀸 (
gujjarattā) "country of the Gurjaras”, itself comes from Sanskrit
*गुर्जरत्रा (
gurjaratrā), of the same meaning... [
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Guldberg DanishDerived from the name of Guldbjerg Parish on the island Funen, Denmark.
Gülden GermanVariant of
Gulden, a metonymic occupational name for a craftsman who gilded objects, or a habitational name referring to a house name such as In den silvren Gulden ("In the Silver Guilder"), De Gulden Hoeve ("The Gilded Farmhouse") or De Gulden Zwaan ("The Gilded Swan").
Gulden Dutch, GermanMeans "golden, gilded" or "guilder, florin (coin)", possibly an occupational name for a goldsmith, or a habitational name derived from a house.
Gulian ArmenianFrom Armenian word
gul meaning "rose", as well as "laughter", combined with the common suffix of
ian meaning "son of".
Gullette FrenchComes from Guillemme or William of Normandy. Reference 1066: The Battle of Hastings.
Gullick EnglishFrom the Middle English personal name
Gullake, a descendant of Old English
Gūthlāc, literally "battle-sport".
Gullit Dutch, Dutch (Surinamese)Possibly derived from Old Dutch
golt meaning "gold", most likely referring to a person who worked with gold. The former Dutch soccer player Ruud Gullit (1962-; birth name Rudi Dil) is a famous bearer of this name.
Gulliver EnglishFrom a medieval nickname for a greedy person (from Old French
goulafre "glutton"). Jonathan Swift used it in his satire 'Gulliver's Travels' (1726), about the shipwrecked ship's surgeon Lemuel Gulliver, whose adventures "offer opportunities for a wide-ranging and often savage lampooning of human stupidity and vice."
Gulo Indonesian, NiasFrom the Nias clan name
Gulö, possibly derived from the name of the clan's ancestor, Kulo Ana'a.
Gültekin TurkishFrom Turkish
gül meaning "rose" combined with the title
tekin meaning "prince".
Gultekin TurkishIt comes from "Kül Tigin" (? - 575 AD) who was a general of the Second Turkic Kaganate (Göktürks' khaganate). He was a second son of Ilterish Shad and the younger brother of Bilge Kagan.
Gulyayev m RussianDerived from Russian word "гулять (gulyat')" meaning walk.
Gumm EnglishFrom a nickname or byname from Middle English
gome, Old English
guma "man".
Gumma Japanese (Rare)From Japanese 群馬 (
Gumma) meaning "Gumma", a former district in the former Japanese province of Kōzuke in present-day Gumma, Japan.... [
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Gunadasa SinhaleseDerived from Sanskrit गुण
(guna) meaning "quality, attribute, merit" and दास
(dasa) meaning "servant, slave".
Gunapala SinhaleseDerived from Sanskrit गुण
(guna) meaning "quality, property, attribute" and पाल
(pala) meaning "guard, protector".
Gunaratne SinhaleseDerived from Sanskrit गुण
(guna) meaning "quality, attribute, merit" and रत्न
(ratna) meaning "jewel, treasure".
Gunasinghe SinhaleseDerived from Sanskrit गुण
(guna) meaning "quality, attribute, merit" and सिंह
(sinha) meaning "lion".
Gunasiri SinhaleseDerived from Sanskrit गुण
(guna) meaning "quality, attribute, merit" and श्री
(shri) meaning "diffusing light, radiance, splendour, beauty".
Gunathilaka SinhaleseDerived from Sanskrit गुण
(guna) meaning "quality, attribute, merit" and तिलक
(tilaka) meaning "mark, dot, ornament".
Gunawan IndonesianIndonesianized version of various Chinese surnames (including 陳
Chen, 郭
Guo, etc.), under the social and political pressure during the New Order era (1966–1998) in Indonesia toward Chinese Indonesians.
Gunawardana SinhaleseDerived from Sanskrit गुण
(guna) meaning "quality, property, attribute" and वर्धन
(vardhana) meaning "increasing, strengthening, growing".
Gundián GalicianThis indicates familial origin within either of 2 eponymous neighborhoods: the one in the parish of Costantín, Baralla or the one in the parish of A Ponte Ulla, Vedra.
Gundry EnglishFrom
Gondri,
Gundric, an Old French personal name introduced to Britain by the Normans, composed of the Germanic elements
gund "battle" and
rīc "power(ful)".
Gunji JapaneseFrom Japanese 郡
(gun) meaning "county, district" and 司
(ji) meaning "officer, official, boss".
Gunn ScottishThis ancient Scottish surname is of Norwegian origin derived from the Old Norse personal name
Gunnr. This surname, in most cases originated in Caithness, Scotland's most northerly county.
Gunner EnglishFrom Old English
gunne meaning "cannon, gun" and the agent suffix "-er"
Gunnery EnglishThe surname Gunnery was first found in Lincolnshire where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor. After the Battle of Hastings in 1066, William, Duke of Normandy, having prevailed over King Harold, granted most of Britain to his many victorious Barons.
Guntli RomanshDerived from Romansh
cunt "count" in combination with the diminutive suffix
-li.
Gunzenhauser German, JewishHabitational name for someone from either of two places named Gunzenhausen, one in Württemberg and the other in Bavaria.
Guppy EnglishEnglish habitational name from a place in Wootton Fitzpaine, Dorset, Gupehegh in Middle English. This is named with the Old English personal name
Guppa (a short form of
Guðbeorht "battle bright") + (ge)
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Gür TurkishMeans "bushy, strong" or "thunder" in Turkish.
Guralnick JewishOccupational name from Ukrainian
guralnyk, Yiddish
guralnik "distiller".
Gurewitz JewishBelarusian and Lithuanian variant of Horowitz, a habitational name from Horovice in central Bohemia, now in the Czech Republic, which is named with a short form of a personal name formed with Hor, as for example Horimir, Horislav.
Gurira Southern African, ShonaFrom the Ndau word
gurira meaning "to break or cut for someone, cut short, take shortcut". The American-Zimbabwean actress and playwright Danai Gurira (1978-) is a famous bearer of this name.
Gurney English, French, NormanOriginated from the region Normandy in France, is also a biospheric name from Gournay-en-Bray, a commune in France. It is also a fictional character's maiden name, Jacqueline "Jackie" Bouvier from the animated sitcom show,
The Simpsons.
Gürsoy TurkishFrom Turkish
gür meaning "bushy, strong" or "thunder" and
soy meaning "ancestry, descent, family".
Gursultur Jewish (Latinized), Kurdish, HebrewThis name is a composition of the following words: GUR; Hebrew for "lion cub", SUL; which is an abbreviation of Suleman (Kurdish for king Solomon), TUR; this word is derived from the Arba'ah Turim. The Arbaáh Turim are often called simply the Tur, which is an important Halakhic code.... [
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Guruge SinhaleseDerived from Sinhala ගුරු
(guru) meaning "teacher, master" and the locative suffix -ගේ
(-ge) meaning "of, home, house".
Gurung NepaliFrom the name of the Gurung (Tamu) people of Nepal, itself an exonym probably of Tibetan origin.
Gurung GurungFrom Nepali गुरुङ (
Guruṅ) meaning "Gurung", a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group.
Gurusinga BatakFrom Sanskrit
guru, meaning “Mentor”, and
singha, meaning “Lion”.
Gusev RussianDerived from Russian гусь
(gus) meaning "goose".
Gushiken Okinawan, JapaneseMeans "strong-willed" from Japanese 具
(gu) meaning "tool, utensil, means", 志
(shi) meaning "intention, will", and 堅
(ken) meaning "hard, resolute, unyielding".
Gusinjac BosnianFrom Gusinje, the name of a town in the Plav municipality of Montenegro where Bosniaks form a regional majority
Gust GermanGerman: from a short form of the personal name
Jodocus, which is either a Latinized form of a Breton name,
Iodoc, borne by a 7th-century Breton saint (compare
Jost and
Joyce) or from a reduced form of the personal name
Augustus.... [
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Guta BosnianPossibly a mispronunciation of the Bosnian word for the verb "gutati" (to swallow) or "guta" (swallowing).
Gutherz German, JewishNickname for a kindly or righteous person. Derived from Middle High German
guot meaning "good" and
herz meaning "heart".
Guðnadóttir IcelandicMeans "daughter of
Guðni". A notable bearer is Icelandic musician and composer Hildur Guðnadóttir (b. 1982).
Guthrie Scottish, IrishAs a Scottish surname, this is either a habitational name for a person from the village of Guthrie near Forfar, itself from Gaelic
gaothair meaning "windy place" (a derivative of
gaoth "wind") and the locative suffix -
ach, or alternatively it might possibly be an Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic
Mag Uchtre meaning "son of Uchtre", a personal name of uncertain origin, perhaps related to
uchtlach "child".... [
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Gütlin German, YiddishDiminutive of GUTE and GUTA, recorded in Frankfurt, Germany throughout the 14th century.
Gutting GermanOf uncertain origin. Probably from a Germanic personal name formed with
god "good" or
god,
got "god".
Gutwald f GermanGutwald is a surname of German origin, which can be derived from the German words ‘Gut’ meaning ‘good’ and ‘Wald’ meaning ‘woods’, thus creating the meaning ‘good woods’. The surname is also derived from the German personal name 'Gottwald', which was derived from the Old High German 'Gottwalt' meaning ‘rule of God’ or ‘God’s power’.
Güven TurkishMeans "trust, confidence" in Turkish, perhaps designating a trustworthy person or one who trusts in others readily.
Guy EnglishOccupational name for a guide, Old French
gui (a derivative of
gui(d)er "to guide", of Germanic origin).
Guy English, FrenchFrom a French form of the Germanic personal name
Wido, which is of uncertain origin. This name was popular among the Normans in the forms
Wi,
Why as well as in the rest of France in the form
Guy.
Guynes WelshWelsh. Derivitive of Gwynn. Modified in the 19th century when the family came to the United States.
Guzi HungarianAs far as known, Guzi means 'friend' but as far as other meanings go, it is unknown. Due to its origin, the last name has two factions of distant family that pronounce it differently- One as "Guh-Zee" as the more uncommon pronunciation that actually follows the origin, and "Goo-Zee" as it is commonly pronounced in English.