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The geil Surname

geil Name Meaning and History

German: nickname from Middle High German geil ‘mischievous’, ‘boisterous’, ‘happy’.

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geil Family Facts

Distribution of geil Families in the US in 1920
Number of geil families
 14-26
 5-13
 1-4
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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