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Geary

in Massachusetts

There are 854 people with the last name "Geary" in Massachusetts.

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Geary 848
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  1. is 844th most common Sheridan
  2. is 845th most common Dooley
  3. is 846th most common Morton
  4. is 847th most common Champagne
  5. is 848th most common Geary
  6. is 849th most common Correa
  7. is 850th most common Frost
  8. is 851st most common Howell
  9. is 852nd most common Berman

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Geary

John, Michael, Thomas, William, Robert, David, James, Patricia, Paul, Daniel

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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