Gehl Family History
- Gehl Name Meaning
- from the short form of an old personal name formed with Middle High German geil ‘voluptuous’, ‘mischievous’, ‘rich’. from an Old Frisian personal name formed with a cognate of Old High German modal ‘ancestral estate’, ‘home country’. nickname for someone with blond hair or a pale complexion, from Middle Low German, Middle High German gel ‘yellow’, ‘blond’. in eastern Germany, from a much altered short form of the personal name Daniel.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 47,484 Historical Documents with Gehl on Ancestry
- 19,725 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 5,990 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,401 Military Records
- 1,359 Immigration Records
- 19,009 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gehl families
 14 - 26  5 - 13 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Gehl census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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