The gaines Surname
gaines Name Meaning and History
- English (of Norman origin): nickname for a crafty or ingenious person, from a reduced form of Old French engaine ‘ingenuity’, ‘trickery’ (Latin ingenium ‘native wit’). The word was also used in a concrete sense of a stratagem or device, particularly a trap.
- This surname has also assimilated reduced variants of Welsh Gurganus.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| Steve and Cassie Gaines |
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| Hannah Gaines Sawtell, late 1700s, Connecticut |
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| Wade Travis Gaines |
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| Arkansas Gaines | Patricia Gaines Brown | 10 |
| James Gains/Gaines African American.... |
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| Samuel Gaines (B. 1802) and Mary (Jones) Gaines (b. ~1802) |
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| Gaines Family of VA | oclarke11 | 0 |
| John Leland Gaines | C Gaines Graston | 12 |
| descendants of lindsay gaines and mary jenkins | argentine mclaurin ( gaines) | 3 |
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