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Geary

in Virginia

There are 244 people with the last name "Geary" in Virginia.

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Ranking in Virginia

NameRank
Geary 3,175
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  1. is 3,171st most common Canter
  2. is 3,172nd most common Clemens
  3. is 3,173rd most common Dow
  4. is 3,174th most common Dunning
  5. is 3,175th most common Geary
  6. is 3,176th most common Kelsey
  7. is 3,177th most common Nickerson
  8. is 3,178th most common Oates
  9. is 3,179th most common Pringle

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Geary

John, Michael, Daniel, Christopher, Robert, Christine, David, James, Kathleen

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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