as a Last Name
- 24,844
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Garland
Meaning & Origins
English: 1. metonymic occupational name for a maker of garlands or chaplets, perhaps also a habitational name from a house sign. The word is first attested in the 14th century, from Old French, and appears to be of Germanic origin. 2. habitational name from a minor place, such as Garland in Chulmleigh, Devon, named from Old English gāra ‘triangular piece of land’ (see Gore) + land ‘cultivated land’, ‘estate’.
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- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 24,844
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Tennessee
- has the most people named Garland per capita
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