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Does anyone have these last names?

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Creekmore, Davis, Garret, Leslie.

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  1. I don't, but Davis is originally Welsh, Leslie I think is Scottish and Garrett is (I think) either Northern English or Scottish.


  2. This is what www.ancestry.com has to say about the name.

    Davis Name Meaning and History

    Southern English: patronymic from David.

    Garret Name Meaning and History

    French: humorous nickname for a man with shapely legs, from jarrett ‘hock’.

    French: variant spelling of Garet, which has various explanations: from Old French garet ‘shelter’, a derivative of garer ‘to protect’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a herdsman or a topographic name for someone who lived by a covered shelter for animals, or a habitational name for someone from a place named with this word, for example in Allier and Puy-de-Dôme; or alternatively from a pet form of any of the various Germanic personal names beginning with the element geri, gari ‘spear’ or ward ‘guard’, ‘protect’.

    English: variant spelling of Garrett.

    Leslie Name Meaning and History

    Scottish: habitational name from a barony in Aberdeenshire, which is first recorded c.1180 in the form Lesslyn, of obscure origin. Leslie in Fife is said to be named for this place; in some cases the surname may come from there.

    English: possibly from a double diminutive of the personal name Lece (see Leece), thus Lecelin.

    Hope this helps.

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