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gans Name Meaning and History

  1. from Dutch and German gans ‘goose’, hence a nickname for a foolish person or a metonymic occupational name for someone who bred or tended geese, or a habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a goose.
  2. nickname for a healthy or strong person, from Middle Low German gans ‘whole’, ‘complete’, ‘healthy’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of gans Families in the US in 1920
Number of gans families
 63-123
 22-62		 1-21
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Threads: 43 - Messages: 114
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ELDREDGE-GANS WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT sonja9 3
African American Gans thegansfamilyaccount 0
GANS, William, b.1824, Ohio 63gbe 5
Gans afamily in New Orleans wiltrower 0
GANS/JANTZ LeeSchilling 1
George Joseph Gans, 1843, Germany to Philadelphia, PA kygans_rrossb 2
Jacob Gans, Civil War bugler LProud 2
Gans Family Ken Lodge 14
Joseph Wolf Gans/Ginsberg @@zwickel@engr.wisc.edu 3
GANS of Kosciusko co IN gsvoorheis 2
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