Family name origins & meanings
- Southern French : topographic name for someone who lived by an oak tree or oak grove, from Occitan garric (masculine) ‘kermes oak’ or garrique (feminine) ‘grove of kermes oaks’.
- English (Norfolk) : variant of Geary 2.
- A bearer with the secondary surname <xref>Lahaye</xref>, from the Perche region of France, is documented in Montreal in 1654.