Given name & surname · also Old French
Gain
“ingenuity”
Gain is a surname with more than one origin.
Meaning & origin
What it means
As an English and Scottish surname of Norman origin, Gain goes back to Old French engaigne, meaning “ingenuity.”
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Where it comes from
Gain has more than one origin: as an English and Scottish surname of Norman origin, it comes from Old French engaigne; as a French surname, it goes back to a word meaning “to obtain, gain”.
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How it developed
From Old French engaigne (“ingenuity”), from Latin ingenium.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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