Gaines Family History
- Gaines Name Meaning
- 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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 936,638 Historical Documents with Gaines on Ancestry
- 278,859 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 135,848 Census and Voter Lists
- 41,970 Military Records
- 8,198 Immigration Records
- 471,763 Member Trees
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Number of Gaines families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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8 - 13 3 - 7 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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