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gens Name Meaning and History

  1. German: variant of Jens.
  2. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) and Polish (Ges): ornamental name from Polish ges ‘goose’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the gens family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of gens Families in the US in 1920
Number of gens families
 10-18
 4-9		 1-3
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Carmen C. [Lefeber] Gens, 1974-2001 stonecoldead 0
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