Last name: GENTLE
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GENTLE : This last name is indexed 17,733 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
GENTLE : English (southern): nickname from Middle English Old French gentil ‘high born noble’ (from Latin gentilis from gens ‘family tribe’ itself from the root gen- ‘to be born’).
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