The geary Surname

geary Name Meaning and History

Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Gadhra ‘descendant of Gadhra’ (see O’Gara). See also McGeary.
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).
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).
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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The geary name in History

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geary Family Facts

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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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James Leslie Geary Sr. Alabama	Joyce Geary Sarno	8
Noble Calhoun Geary & Marguerete Muschawick	Pat Geary	4
Gearys with roots in Ireland>PA>NY	James P Geary	4
James Geary from Cork, Ireland to Baltimore, MD	kghayes1	3
Kevin James GEARY Sr., circa 2004	pritch4398	1
Douglas M. Geary, Lexington, Richland Co. Ohio obit , aunt Mrs. John Stough, minister Rev. S. W. Miller	Susan Cocker Hopkins	0
Gearys from California	Minya	31
Honore(Hannah) Guiry(Geary)	merrill_mann	13
Thomas William Geary	Sharon	1
Wade Geary from Buffalo (Dec.) Previously married to Margaret (Stewart)	jwgagg	3

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