Gareth (first name)
Gareth ( ˈɡarɛθ ) is a male given name from Wales . It was first used in this form in Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur . Here it was the name of Sir Gareth , a brother of Gawain and one of the Knights of the Round Table. Malory derived it from Gahariet , a name that appeared in French Arthurian legends. This may have had a Welsh origin, possibly with the name Geraint or the word gwaredd , which means kindness, kindness or amiability.
The name is still popular in Wales to this day , where it is sometimes belittled to Gary.
Name bearer
- Gareth Allen (born 1988), Welsh snooker player
- Gareth Bale (born 1989), Welsh football player
- Gareth Barry (* 1981), English football player
- Gareth Bryan-Jones (* 1943), British obstacle runner
- Gareth Cooper (born 1979), Welsh rugby union player
- Gareth Coppack (born 1980), Welsh snooker player
- Gareth Creer (pseudonym Adam Creed ; * 1961), British writer
- Gareth David , British singer, member of Los Campesinos!
- Gareth David-Lloyd (* 1981), Welsh actor and musician
- Gareth Alban Davies (1926–2009), Welsh poet and Hispanist
- Gareth Dyke , British paleontologist
- Gareth Emery (* 1980), British DJ and music producer
- Gareth Evans (politician) (born 1944), Australian politician
- Gareth Evans (philosopher) (1946–1980), British philosopher
- Gareth Evans (director) (born 1980), Welsh director, screenwriter and film editor
- Gareth Gates (born 1984), British singer
- Gareth Henry (born 1991), Jamaican badminton player
- Gareth Hunt (real Alan Leonard Hunt ; 1942–2007), British actor
- Gareth Llewellyn (born 1969), Welsh rugby union player
- Gareth McAuley (* 1979), Northern Irish football player
- Gareth Alun Owens (* 1964), Welsh classical philologist and archaeologist
- Gareth Peirce (* 1940), British lawyer
- Gareth Southgate (* 1970), English football player and coach
- Gareth Unwin (* 1972), British film producer
Fictional people
- Gareth , a knight of the Arthurian Round Table
- Gareth Mallory , temporarily superior of the equally fictional James Bond
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: A dictionary of first names . Oxford University Press , 2003, ISBN 0-19-860605-2 .
- ↑ a b c d Mike Campbell: Gareth . In: Behind the Name: the etymology and history of first names . Retrieved September 2, 2012.
- ^ Welsh Names . In: Twf Cymru . Retrieved September 2, 2012.
- ↑ Emily Wood: The Virgin Book of Baby Names . Random House, 2012, ISBN 978-0-7535-2156-4 .