Given name & surname · also French
Gien
“winter market”
Gien is a surname, probably from French, ultimately from Proto-Celtic.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Gien probably goes back to a word meaning “winter market.”
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Where it comes from
Gien probably comes from French, and ultimately from Proto-Celtic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
Probably from Late Latin Giomum, from Proto-Celtic *gyemos.
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