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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads named Gardnes, probably from Old Norse garðr ‘fence’ + nes ‘headland’.
  • English (Worcester) : variant spelling of Garniss, of uncertain origin, perhaps a derivative of Old French gernon ‘moustache’.

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