as a Last Name
- 4,486
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Mcgarvey
Meaning & Origins
Irish (County Donegal) and Scottish (Galloway): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gairbhshíth ‘son of Gairbhshíth’, a personal name derived from garbh ‘rough’, ‘cruel’ + síth ‘peace’.
| 7,469th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 4,486
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Pennsylvania
- has the most people named Mcgarvey per capita
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