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Geary

in Indiana

There are 301 people with the last name "Geary" in Indiana.

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Geary 2,249
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  1. is 2,245th most common Richie
  2. is 2,246th most common Blackman
  3. is 2,247th most common Chester
  4. is 2,248th most common Custer
  5. is 2,249th most common Geary
  6. is 2,250th most common Hoagland
  7. is 2,251st most common Overman
  8. is 2,252nd most common Parrott
  9. is 2,253rd most common Peter

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Geary

John, James, Michael, David, Mary, Robert, Joseph, Steven, Deborah, Steve

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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