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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Swiss German : variant of Geiser.
  • German : from a reduced form of the personal name Geishard, from Old High German gīsil ‘scion’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘bold’, ‘brave’.

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