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garth Name Meaning and History

  1. Northern English: topographic name for someone who lived near an enclosure, normally a paddock or orchard, from northern Middle English garth ‘enclosed area’, ‘yard’ (from Old Norse garðr ‘enclosure’).
  2. German (also Gärth): topographic name from Old Saxon gard ‘enclosure’, ‘farm(yard)’, originally denoting a settlement protected by a fence.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of garth Families in the US in 1920
Number of garth families
 47-92
 16-46		 1-15
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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