The guise Surname
guise Name Meaning and History
- English and French: regional name for someone from the district of France of this name, which is of unexplained origin.
- French: from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with wid ‘leader’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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