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The geary Surname

geary Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Gadhra ‘descendant of Gadhra’ (see O’Gara). See also McGeary.
  2. English: from a personal name derived from Germanic ger, gar ‘spear’, a short form of any of various compound names with this as a first element (see, for example Garrett).
  3. English: nickname for a wayward or capricious person, from Middle English ge(a)ry ‘fickle’, ‘changeable’, ‘passionate’ (a derivative of gere ‘fit of passion’, apparently a Scandinavian borrowing).
  4. Possibly an altered spelling of German Gehring or Gehrig.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of geary Families in the US in 1920
Number of geary families
 180-357
 61-179
 1-60
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