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Geary

in New Jersey

There are 386 people with the last name "Geary" in New Jersey.

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Geary 1,976
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  5. is 1,976th most common Geary
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  9. is 1,980th most common Ryder

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Geary

Michael, John, Robert, Thomas, Joseph, Daniel, James, Kathleen, William, David

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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