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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : perhaps a habitational name for someone from Gehmen in Saxony or from any of several places named Gemen.
  • German : from a short form of a personal name formed with Old High German gam(an) ‘joy’, ‘play’, ‘fun’.
  • German : from a short form of the medieval personal name Gemianus.

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