Updated June 9, 2019

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Boy name origins & meanings

  • English : Increase in wealth

Boy name variations

Gaynes

Gaynes

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Gainsborough

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Gainor

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Gaynor

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Gains

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Gayne

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Family name origins & meanings

  • 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.