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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern French : topographic name for someone who lived by an oak tree or oak grove, from Occitan garric (masculine) ‘kermes oak’ or garrique (feminine) ‘grove of kermes oaks’.
  • English (Norfolk) : variant of Geary 2.
  • A bearer with the secondary surname <xref>Lahaye</xref>, from the Perche region of France, is documented in Montreal in 1654.

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