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The garay Surname

garay Name Meaning and History

  1. Basque: Castilianized form of Garai, a habitational name from Garai, in Biscay, Basque Country, or from one of the five other, smaller places of the same name, also in Biscay, all named from Basque garai ‘high’, a derivative of gara ‘height’, ‘peak’.
  2. Hungarian: habitational name for someone from a place called Gara.

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Distribution of garay Families in the US in 1920
Number of garay families
 28-54
 10-27
 1-9
 0
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