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garland Name Meaning and History

  1. metonymic occupational name for a maker of garlands or chaplets, perhaps also a habitational name from a house sign. The word is first attested in the 14th century, from Old French, and appears to be of Germanic origin.
  2. habitational name from a minor place, such as Garland in Chulmleigh, Devon, named from Old English gara ‘triangular piece of land’ (see Gore) + land ‘cultivated land’, ‘estate’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of garland Families in the US in 1920
Number of garland families
 122-241
 41-121		 1-40
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was Mrs. Collins: Garland vs. Barbee VA 1700s? genealogy126126 0
Garland in Gloucester County Virginia(USA) MollyES 0
Garland's of NW Georgia (Union County) pope1966 0
Margaret? dau. of William & Mary Hunt Garland? rnthrift 0
Garland of Backwell, Somerset sallydouglas1 0
Julian J. ? m. Josiah Jordan GA LaVerneGibson84 0
Garland William Jarrell (1835-1863);NC>SC>Gettysburg WileyAlston_Jarrell 0
i am a garland t a (garland) nelson 27
Garlands TN, VA ?? cheylynn 6
Lewis Garland, Clay/Knox KY MartinAbrams369 0
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