Frequency: (879)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. Scottish: descriptive nickname from Gaelic garbh ‘brawny’, ‘rough’.
2. English: variant of Garraway.
3. Americanized spelling of French Gareau.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.




