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gehlbach Name Meaning and History

German: habitational name from an unidentified place, named with a compound of Gehl ‘wet lowland’ + Bach ‘stream’.

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Distribution of gehlbach Families in the US in 1920
Number of gehlbach families
 7-11
 3-6
 1-2
 0
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