Frequency: (386)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. Americanized form of German Gehr.
2. English: perhaps a variant of Geary 3.
3. Hungarian: from a reduced form of the personal name Gergely, Latin Gregorius (see Gregory).
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
