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Garside


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Origin Of The Surname Garside

Meaning Of The Surname Garside

From the Town with the Pen on the Hillside

Interesting Facts About Garside

Garside is a locational surname coming from any of the places so-called or similarly spelled across Britain. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself comes from the Old English ‘garth’ meaning a pen, combined with ‘side’ to mean ‘the pen on the hillside’.

Garside Statistics

Garside is the number 1335 ranked surname in the United Kingdom. According to our statistics around 7,872 share the surname Garside in the UK.

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