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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from the Old English personal name Gārwīg ‘spear war’
  • English : habitational name for someone from Garway in Herefordshire. The place name, recorded in 1189 as Langarewi, is probably from Welsh llan ‘church’ + the personal name Guoruoe.

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