Garr Family History
- Garr Name Meaning
- Irish or Scottish: reduced form of McGarr. Altered form of German Gorr, from a short form of the personal name Gregor, Latin Gregorius (see Gregory). Possibly an altered spelling of German Garre, a nickname for someone with a croaky voice, from a derivative of Middle High German, Middle Low German garren ‘to whistle’, ‘to groan’. Alternatively, a metonymic occupational name for a cartwright, from Middle High German garre, karre ‘cart’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 123,761 Historical Documents with Garr on Ancestry
- 26,497 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 17,093 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,521 Military Records
- 2,006 Immigration Records
- 74,644 Member Trees
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Number of Garr families
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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16 - 29 6 - 15 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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3 - 3 2 - 2 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- 53
- Confederate
- 31
- Union
- 22
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