Etymology

Guggenheim

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The story

Jewish surname, from Gougenheim in Alsace or Jugenheim in Hesse. The first element could be from the Germanic personal name Gogo(n); the second element is from Old High German heim (“home”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.