What's in a name? Gain

GAIN

English: variant of Gaines.

Place of Origin	Gain Immigrants
Ireland	26
England	17
Germany	14
Great Britain	5
Mexico	4
France	2

Compiled by Ancestry.com from the New York Passenger Lists.

---> GAINES

1. 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.
2. This surname has also assimilated reduced variants of Welsh Gurganus.

op Places of Origin for Gaines

Place of Origin	Gaines Immigrants
Ireland	24
England	13
Scotland	8
Great Britain	5
Germany	3
Denmark	1

Compiled by Ancestry.com from the New York Passenger Lists.