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Geary

in South Dakota

There are 61 people with the last name "Geary" in South Dakota.

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Ranking in South Dakota

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Geary 1,557
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  1. is 1,553rd most common Daniel
  2. is 1,554th most common Dreyer
  3. is 1,555th most common Flannery
  4. is 1,556th most common Fryer
  5. is 1,557th most common Geary
  6. is 1,558th most common Hand
  7. is 1,559th most common Hepper
  8. is 1,560th most common Jarding
  9. is 1,561st most common Jongeling

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Geary

Benjamin, David, James, Leonne, Patricia, Shawn, Virgil, Andrea, Ben, Brian

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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