English: variant of Gaines.
Place of Origin | Gain Immigrants |
---|---|
Ireland | 26 |
England | 17 |
Germany | 14 |
Great Britain | 5 |
Mexico | 4 |
France | 2 |
---> GAINES
- 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.
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