Wednesday, August 5, 2009

What's in a name? Gain

GAIN
English: variant of Gaines.

Place of
Origin
Gain Immigrants
Ireland26
England17
Germany14
Great Britain5
Mexico4
France2
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
Ireland24
England13
Scotland8
Great Britain5
Germany3
Denmark1
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the New York Passenger Lists.

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