Garten Family History
Garten Name Meaning
German: metonymic occupational name for a gardener or overseer of a garden or enclosure. Originally the term denoted the keeper of an enclosure for deer later of a vineyard or smallholding from Middle High German garte ‘garden enclosure’. Compare Hofgarten ‘courtyard’ Weingarten ‘vineyard’. Alternatively it may be a short form of any of various compound names formed with this element e.g. Swiss German Gart(en)mann Gartenhauser. Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German Garten ‘garden’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022