Last names linked to GARBH

Origin

Garrow : 1: Scottish: descriptive nickname from the Gaelic epithet garbh ‘rough stout of powerful build’.2: Cornish: nickname from garow ‘rough’.3: English: perhaps sometimes a habitational name from Garway in Herefordshire named with Welsh llan + the Christian saint's name Guoruoe.4: Americanized form of French Gareau.5: Americanized form of French Garand.

Garvey : Irish (Western Ireland and Armagh): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Gairbhshíth ‘descendant of Gairbhshíth’ a personal name from garbh ‘rough cruel’ + síth ‘peace’. See also McGarvey.

Garvin : 1: Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Gairbhín ‘descendant of Gairbhín’ a personal name derived from a diminutive of garbh ‘rough cruel’.2: English: from the Old English personal name Gārwine from gār ‘spear’ + wine ‘friend’.

Garvock : probably from Garvock (Kincardines) but perhaps also from Garvock (Perths) or Garvock in Dunfermline (Fife). The place-name in each case is from Gaelic garbh ‘rough’ with a place-name forming suffix -oc.

McGarvey : Irish (Donegal and Tyrone) and Scottish (Galloway): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gairbhshíth ‘son of Gairbhshíth’ a personal name derived from garbh ‘rough cruel’ + síth ‘peace’. Compare Garvey.

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