Gary

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡæɹ.ɪ/
• (General American)
  • (without the Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɡæɹ.i/

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  • (Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɛɹ.i/, /ˈɡeɹ.i/

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• Rhymes: -æɹi, -ɛɹi
• Hyphenation: Ga‧ry
• Homophones: gari, Garie, Garre, garri, Garrie, garry, Garry, ghari, gharri, gharry; (Mary–marry–merry merger) Gehry, Gerrie, Gerry

Medieval short form of Germanic compound names beginning with gari or geri ("spear"), such as Gerard, Garrett, Gerald, or Gerbert. Cognate with the Scottish and Irish name Garaidh. Sometimes also a short form of Gareth.

The popularity of the given name in the 20th century is due to the American actor Gary Cooper, whose stage name was invented by his agent, a native of Gary, Indiana.

Gary (countable and uncountable, plural Garys)

1. A male given name from the Germanic languages, popular from the 1940s to the 1970s; variant form Garry.
   • 1930, Irving Berlin, “Puttin' On The Ritz”:

     Dressed up like a million dollar trooper / Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper

   • 1964, Anne Tyler, If Morning Ever Comes, Severn House, published 1983, page 52:

     "Gary's an awful name. Whatever he's like. It reminds me of a G.I. man with a crew cut, and 'Mom' tattooed on his chest, and lots of pin-up pictures on his wall."

   • 2016 September 29, Josh Lederman, Patrick Mairs, “Brain freeze? Gary Johnson can’t name favorite world leader”, in PBS NewsHour‎^[1], Associated Press, archived from the original on 8 March 2018:

     Call it a brain freeze, another “Aleppo moment,” or a mere campaign stumble, but Gary Johnson has stumbled again in his quixotic presidential campaign.

2. A surname from Middle English [in turn originating as a patronymic]; variant form Garry.
3. Numerous places in the United States:
   1. A city in Lake County, Indiana, named after American judge and businessman Elbert Henry Gary.
      • 1957 December 19, Meredith Willson, “Gary, Indiana”, in The Music Man:

        Gary, Indiana! ¶ What a wonderful name ¶ Named for Elbert Gary of judiciary fame ¶ Gary, Indiana, as a Shakespeare would say ¶ Trips along softly on the tongue this way--

   2. A neighbourhood of Tampa, Florida.
   3. An unincorporated community in Howard County, Maryland.
   4. A minor city in Norman County, Minnesota, named after Garrett L. Thorpe.
   5. A city in Deuel County, South Dakota.
   6. A minor city in McDowell County, West Virginia, named after American judge and businessman Elbert Henry Gary.
   7. Ellipsis of Gary City: a town in Panola County, Texas, United States.

• → Cebuano: Gary
• → Tagalog: Gary

Ellipsis of Gary Glitter.

Gary (plural Garys)

1. Synonym of Gary Glitter (“anus”).

   He did him up the Gary, he did.

• “Gary”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Gary”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Yarg, ragy, Gray, gyra, gray, yarg

Unadapted borrowing from English Gary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɾi/ [ˈɡa.ɾ̪ɪ]
• Hyphenation: Ga‧ry

Gary (Badlit spelling ᜄᜇᜒ)

1. a male given name from English [in turn from the Germanic languages]

Unadapted borrowing from English Gary.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɾi/ [ˈɡaː.ɾɪ], /ˈɡeɾi/ [ˈɡɛː.ɾɪ]
• Rhymes: -aɾi, -eɾi
• Syllabification: Ga‧ry

Gary (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜇᜒ or ᜄᜒᜇᜒ)

1. a male given name from English [in turn from the Germanic languages]