O'Gara Surname Meaning & Coat of Arms

O'Gara? Think of it as Geary with a different pen. Read literally, O'Gara points to “Keen”. Before spelling was fixed, Geary was also written O'Gara. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The same family of names includes Gearey.

The 2010 census count for O'Gara in the United States was 1,849, good for rank 15,763. It sits within the 25,000 most common last names in the country. In Spain, the INE population register lists 69 people with O'Gara as their first surname and 85 as their second.

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