Geary

in the US

There are 10,472 people with the last name "Geary" in the United States.

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Ranking in the US

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Geary 2,657
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  1. is 2,653rd most common Reynoso
  2. is 2,654th most common Barfield
  3. is 2,655th most common Low
  4. is 2,656th most common Grier
  5. is 2,657th most common Geary
  6. is 2,658th most common Gamboa
  7. is 2,659th most common Lassiter
  8. is 2,660th most common Dias
  9. is 2,661st most common Valentin

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Geary

John, Michael, James, William, Robert, David, Thomas, Mary, Richard, Daniel



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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