Garner Family History
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Garner Name Meaning
English: from Anglo-Norman French gerner ‘granary’ (Old French grenier, from Late Latin granarium, a derivative of granum ‘grain’). It may have been a topographic name for someone who lived near a barn or granary, or a metonymic occupational name for someone in charge of the stores kept in a granary. English: variant of Warner 1, from a central Old French form. English: reduced form of Gardener. South German: from an agent derivative of Middle High German garn ‘thread’; by extension, an occupational name for a fisherman. Altered spelling of Gerner.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
Similar surnames: Garber, Karner, Marner, Gartner, Barner, Warner, Lardner, Galler