Last Name GARSIDE

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Meaning Local: At the garth-side, i.e. living at the side of the garth, the yard or orchard. This last name first dropped the 'h,' secondly the 't,' and is now almost universally Garside. 'In the reign of Edward I lived Sir Baldwin Teutonicus, ... who granted to Sir Robert de Holland, in free marriage with Joan, his daughter, all his lands in Butterworth, the Cleggs, Garthside, Akedene, Holynworth, and Halght in Rochdale' (Baines'Lancashire). Garthside lay in Crompton, between Rochdale and Oldham. The surname arose there. The full form recently existed in Liverpool. Probably it was a modern restoration.
Origin English, Irish

Rank 22,185 (2000 US census) 22,268 (1990 US census)
Count 1,086 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 94.38%, or 1025 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 2.12%, or 23 total occurrences, as black,
  • undisclosed % as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • undisclosed % as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.29%, or 14 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.2%, or 13 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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