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Guthrie

in the US

There are 27,087 people with the last name "Guthrie" in the United States.

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Guthrie 976
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  1. is 972nd most common Hinton
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  5. is 976th most common Guthrie
  6. is 977th most common Vogel
  7. is 978th most common Bright
  8. is 979th most common Gay
  9. is 980th most common Springer

Similar Names and Nicknames

Guth, Guthmiller, Guthery, Guthridge, Gutherie, Guthre, Guthier, Guther, Guthman, Gutheil

Most Common First Names for Guthrie

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

Meaning & History

Scottish: habitational name from a place near Forfar, named in Gaelic with gaothair ‘windy place’ (a derivative of gaoth ‘wind’) + the locative suffix -ach.

Possibly an Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mag Uchtre ‘son of Uchtre’, a personal name of uncertain origin, perhaps akin to uchtlach ‘child’.

Irish: adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Fhlaithimh ‘descendant of Flaitheamh’, a byname meaning ‘prince’. This is the result of an erroneous association of the Gaelic name in the form Ó Fhlaithimh (Fh being silent), with the Gaelic word laithigh ‘mud’, and of mud with gutters, and an equally erroneous association of the Scottish surname Guthrie with the word ‘gutter’. Compare Laffey.

FOREBEARS Samuel Guthrie (1782–1848), who invented a replacement for the flintlock musket, also discovered chloroform in 1831. His ancestor John Guthrie came to North America from Edinburgh, Scotland, and died in Litchfield Co., CT, in 1730.

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