Gaines Family History
Gaines Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): nickname for a crafty or ingenious
person, from a reduced form of Old French engaine ‘ingenuity’,
‘trickery’ (Latin ingenium ‘native wit’). The word was also
used in a concrete sense of a stratagem or device, particularly a
trap.This surname has also assimilated reduced variants of Welsh
Gurganus.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Gaines Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gaines families
 208 - 414  70 - 207 |
 1 - 69  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Gaines families
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122 - 242 41 - 121 |
1 - 40 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gaines families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Gaines Family Origin
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Gaines Family Occupations
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