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Garten Name Meaning
German: metonymic occupational name for a gardener or overseer
of a garder or enclosure. Originally the term denoted the keeper of an
enclosure for deer, later of a vineyard or smallholding, from Middle
High German garte ‘garden’, ‘enclosure’. Compare
Hofgarten ‘courtyard’, Weingarten ‘vineyard’.
Alternatively, it may be a short form of any of the various compound
names formed with this element, e.g. Swiss Gart(en)mann,
Gartenhauser.Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from
German Garten ‘garden’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Garten Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Garten families
 20 - 38  7 - 19 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Garten families
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8 - 13 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Garten Family Origin
Garten Immigration Information
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Garten Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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