French: from a diminutive of Old French garra ‘crock or jar
for oil’, presumably a metonymic occupational name for a maker of such
crocks or for a producer or seller of aromatic or comestible
oils. This name is concentrated in LA.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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