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[Facts] Gumpert/Gumpricht
Any idea about the meaning these old German male names?


~~ Claire ~~
My ! are Alia, Eidel, Enola, Israel, Dudel, Yuri, Lina, Lorelei, Leilani, Owen, Julian, Glorinda, Mirinda
My ? are Hillel, Meshullam, Johnny, Ginny, Cordelia, Fiammetta, Yocheved
My ~ are Tehila, Tilda, Hailey, Gillian, Huldah
My / are Aglaia and July
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Caressa is right: both names are composed of the two Germanic elements GUND, battle, and BERAHT, bright, famous.
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And I found this in my namebook:Gumpert, Gumprecht > Gomprecht.Gomprecht means something like shining/famous in a battle.
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I found something on Wikipedia:In Germany the tendency to adopt Christian names was perhaps most marked, such names as Bernhard, Bero, Eberhard, Falk, Gumprecht, Knoblauch, Liebreich, Manz and Mans which both constitute the Alemannic/Swabian short form of the personal name Mangold, Süsskind, Weiss, and Wolf being among those noticed in the early Middle Ages. Especially popular were compounds with -mann or -man, as Feldmann, Kaufmann, Lieberman, Lipman, and Seligman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_name
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