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GAREY : Variant of GEARY.

GARFAGNINI : From the name of the region in Tuscany near the historical city of Lucca: Garfagnana. A Garfagnino is an inhabitant of this area.

GARFIELD : Means "triangle field" in Old English. A famous bearer was American president James A. Garfield (1831-1881).

GARLAND : Means "triangle land" from Old English gara and land. It originally belonged to a person who owned a triangle-shaped piece of land.

GARNER : Shortened form of GARDNER. It can also be a Middle English surname meaning "to gather grain" or "granary keeper".

GARNET : Variant of GARNETT (1) or GARNETT (2).

GARNETT (1) : Occupational surname which referred to a person who made hinges (Old French carne).

GARNETT (2) : Occupational surname which referred to a person who sold pomegranates (Old French pome grenate).

GAROFALO : From an old given name or nickname, documented in Genoa in 1157 as Garofalus from a regional variant garofalo (see the Italian word garofano "carnatio...

GARRARD : From the given name GERARD.

GARRASTAZU : From the Basque word arratz "bush" combined with the suffix sta denoting a place.

GARRET : Variant of GARRETT.

GARRETT : Derived from the given name GERALD or GERARD.

GARROD : Derived from the given name GERALD.

GARRY : Variant of GEARY.

GARVER : Variant of GERBER.

GARY : Variant of GEARY.

GARZA : Derived from Spanish garza "heron" (a type of crane).

GASPAR : Derived from the given name GASPAR.

GASPARI : From the given name GASPARE.

GASS : Name for someone who lived on a street in a city, from German gasse.

GATTI : Means "cat" in Italian and originally indicated an agile person.

GAVRILOVIĆ : Means "son of GAVRILO".

GAVRILYUK : From a diminutive of the given name GAVRIL.

GAÁL : Variant of GÁL.

GAŠPAR : Derived from the given name GAŠPER.

GEARY : Derived from a Norman given name which was a short form of Germanic names starting with the element ger "spear".

GEBARA : Habitational name for someone who lived in Gebara, a place in the Basque province of Araba (Álava).

GEELEN : Derived from the given name Geel, which comes from GILLIS or GILBERT.

GEELENS : Variant of GEELEN.



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