Gaynor Family History
Gaynor Name Meaning
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag
Fhionnbhairr ‘son of Fionnbharr’, a personal name composed
of fionn ‘fair’, ‘white’ + barr ‘top’, ‘head’.Welsh and English: from the female personal name Gaenor (a
form of Welsh Gwenhwyfar, a compound of gwen ‘fair’,
‘white’ + (g)wyf ‘smooth’, ‘yielding’ + fawr
‘large’. This was the name of King Arthur’s queen Guinevere).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Gaynor Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gaynor families
 135 - 267  46 - 134 |
 1 - 45  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Gaynor families
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74 - 146 25 - 73 |
1 - 24 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gaynor families
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6 - 10 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Gaynor Family Origin
Gaynor Immigration Information
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Gaynor Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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