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Gary Foster

in the US

There are 819 people with the name "Gary Foster" in the United States.

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Ranking in the US

Name	Rank
Gary	30
Foster	83
Gary Foster	7,921

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is 30th most common Gary
is 31st most common Edward
is 32nd most common Nancy
is 33rd most common Christopher
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is 79th most common Rivera
is 80th most common Long
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is 82nd most common Myers
is 83rd most common Foster
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is 87th most common Sanders

is 7,917th most common Janet Thompson
is 7,918th most common John Buchanan
is 7,919th most common Judith Davis
is 7,920th most common Susan Evans
is 7,921st most common Gary Foster
is 7,922nd most common James Kerr
is 7,923rd most common John Hubbard
is 7,924th most common John Lamb
is 7,925th most common John Maloney

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Meaning & History

Gary

Foster

(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.