Garner Family History
Garner Name Meaning
English: from Anglo-Norman French gerner ‘granary’ (Old
French grenier, from Late Latin granarium, a derivative
of granum ‘grain’). It may have been a topographic name for
someone who lived near a barn or granary, or a metonymic occupational
name for someone in charge of the stores kept in a
granary.English: variant of Warner 1, from a central Old
French form.English: reduced form of Gardener.South German: from an agent derivative of Middle High German
garn ‘thread’; by extension, an occupational name for a
fisherman.Altered spelling of Gerner.
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Name Distribution of Garner Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Garner families
 259 - 516  87 - 258 |
 1 - 86  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Garner families
|
822 - 1,641 275 - 821 |
1 - 274 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Garner families
|
12 - 22 5 - 11 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Garner Family Origin
Garner Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Garner
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Garner Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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