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garret Name Meaning and History

  1. French: humorous nickname for a man with shapely legs, from jarrett ‘hock’.
  2. French: variant spelling of Garet, which has various explanations: from Old French garet ‘shelter’, a derivative of garer ‘to protect’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a herdsman or a topographic name for someone who lived by a covered shelter for animals, or a habitational name for someone from a place named with this word, for example in Allier and Puy-de-Dôme; or alternatively from a pet form of any of the various Germanic personal names beginning with the element geri, gari ‘spear’ or ward ‘guard’, ‘protect’.
  3. English: variant spelling of Garrett.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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garret Family Facts

Distribution of garret Families in the US in 1920
Number of garret families
 42-82
 15-41		 1-14
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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