Garn Family History

English (western): from a lost place called Garn in Westbury on Severn (Gloucestershire). English: perhaps a shortened form of the Old French personal name Geron the oblique case form of Garo a pet form of ancient Germanic names in Ger- (see Gerald Gerard Garbutt). A shortened form Gern would have given rise to a variant pronunciation Garn in late Middle English.

English: perhaps a shortened form of Garron. German: metonymic occupational name for a producer of or dealer in yarn Middle High German garn. East German: topographic name for a mountain dweller from the Slavic root gorn- e.g. in the Lower Sorbian adjective gorny ‘of the mountains’.