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Geary

in Illinois

There are 506 people with the last name "Geary" in Illinois.

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NameRank
Geary 2,157
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  1. is 2,153rd most common Hildebrand
  2. is 2,154th most common Pawlak
  3. is 2,155th most common Heinrich
  4. is 2,156th most common Pawlowski
  5. is 2,157th most common Geary
  6. is 2,158th most common Messina
  7. is 2,159th most common Worley
  8. is 2,160th most common Earl
  9. is 2,161st most common Kauffman

Similar Names and Nicknames

Gearhart, Geer, Gear, Gerry, Gearing, Gearheart, Gearin, Gehr, Goar, Gearlds

Most Common First Names for Geary

John, James, William, Thomas, David, Michael, Richard, Robert, Kathleen, Charles

Meaning & History

Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Gadhra ‘descendant of Gadhra’ (see O’Gara). See also McGeary.

English: from a personal name derived from Germanic gēr, gār ‘spear’, a short form of any of various compound names with this as a first element (see, for example Garrett).

English: nickname for a wayward or capricious person, from Middle English ge(a)ry ‘fickle’, ‘changeable’, ‘passionate’ (a derivative of gere ‘fit of passion’, apparently a Scandinavian borrowing).

Possibly an altered spelling of German Gehring or Gehrig.

FOREBEARS Most present-day Irish bearers of the name Geary and its variants and derivatives are descended from a single 10thcentury ancestor, a nephew of Eadhra, who founded the family O’Hara in Connacht. The family is now spread more widely.

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