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Geary

in Pennsylvania

There are 942 people with the last name "Geary" in Pennsylvania.

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Ranking in Pennsylvania

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Geary 1,203
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  1. is 1,199th most common Dickerson
  2. is 1,200th most common Driscoll
  3. is 1,201st most common Goldman
  4. is 1,202nd most common Yang
  5. is 1,203rd most common Geary
  6. is 1,204th most common Hays
  7. is 1,205th most common Koons
  8. is 1,206th most common Robison
  9. is 1,207th most common Siegel

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Geary

John, William, Robert, Mary, James, David, Michael, Richard, George, Joseph

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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