Geist Family History
Geist Name Meaning
German: metonymic occupational name for a goatherd or nickname
for a stubborn person, from Middle High German geiz
‘goat’.German: habitational name for someone who lived in a house
marked by the sign of the Holy Spirit (normally depicted as a dove),
from Middle High German geist ‘spirit’. Both Geist and
Heilgeist occur as house signs in Frankfurt am Main in the
mid–14th century.North German: topographic name for someone who
lived in an area of barren sandy soil, Middle Low German
gest.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Geist
Name Distribution of Geist Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Geist families
 132 - 261  45 - 131 |
 1 - 44  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Geist families
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6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Geist families
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3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Geist Family Origin
Geist Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Geist
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Geist Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Geist census records
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