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The gellert Surname

gellert Name Meaning and History

  1. German: variant of Geller 2.
  2. German: from the Germanic personal name Gelhard, a cognate of the verb gelten ‘to sacrifice’, ‘to recompense’.
  3. Hungarian (Gellért): from a personal name composed of the Germanic elements gar, ger ‘spear’, ‘lance’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of gellert Families in the US in 1920
Number of gellert families
 13-23
 5-12
 1-4
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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