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Gary Evans

in the US

There are 1,087 people with the name "Gary Evans" in the United States.

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Ranking in the US

Name	Rank
Gary	30
Evans	46
Gary Evans	4,749

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is 28th most common Karen
is 29th most common Lisa
is 30th most common Gary
is 31st most common Edward
is 32nd most common Nancy
is 33rd most common Christopher
is 34th most common Scott

is 42nd most common Roberts
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is 44th most common Carter
is 45th most common Phillips
is 46th most common Evans
is 47th most common Turner
is 48th most common Sanchez
is 49th most common Parker
is 50th most common Collins

is 4,745th most common Angela Anderson
is 4,746th most common Catherine Jones
is 4,747th most common David Harper
is 4,748th most common David Watkins
is 4,749th most common Gary Evans
is 4,750th most common John Bauer
is 4,751st most common Luis Gutierrez
is 4,752nd most common M Hill
is 4,753rd most common Robert Cohen

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Meaning & History

Gary

Evans

(male) Transferred use of a surname, which is probably derived from a Norman personal name of Continental Germanic origin, a short form of any of the various compound names beginning with gar ‘spear’. One bearer of this surname was the American industrialist Elbert Henry Gary (1846–1927), who gave his name to the steel town of Gary, Indiana (chartered in 1906). In this town was born the theatrical agent Nan Collins, who suggested Gary as a stage name for her client Frank J. Cooper, who thus became Gary Cooper (1901–61). His film career caused the name to become enormously popular from the 1930s to the present day. Its popularity has been maintained by the cricketer Gary Sobers (b. 1936; in his case it is in fact a pet form of Garfield) and the footballer Gary Lineker (b. 1960). It is now often taken as a pet form of Gareth.