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Garay Name Meaning
Basque: Castilianized form of Garai, a habitational name
from Garai, in Biscay, Basque Country, or from one of the five other,
smaller places of the same name, also in Biscay, all named from Basque
garai ‘high’, a derivative of gara ‘height’, ‘peak’.Hungarian: habitational name for someone from a place called
Gara.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Garay
Name Distribution of Garay Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Garay families
 28 - 54  10 - 27 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Garay families
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6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Garay families
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4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Garay census records
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Garay Family Origin
Garay Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Garay
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Garay Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Garay census records
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Garay Civil War Service Records
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