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The gamelin Surname

gamelin Name Meaning and History

  1. French: from pet form of any of the compound personal names formed with gamal, related to Old Norse gamall, Old German gamel ‘old’, ‘aged’.
  2. Possibly a respelling of German Gammelin, a habitational name from a place in Mecklenburg called Gammelin.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of gamelin Families in the US in 1920
Number of gamelin families
 6-9
 3-5		 1-2
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