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Gregory

in Illinois

There are 2,494 people with the last name "Gregory" in Illinois.

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Gregory 347
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  1. is 343rd most common Steele
  2. is 344th most common Gross
  3. is 345th most common Schaefer
  4. is 346th most common Simon
  5. is 347th most common Gregory
  6. is 348th most common Hartman
  7. is 349th most common Roth
  8. is 350th most common Salazar
  9. is 351st most common Hale

Similar Names and Nicknames

Gregg, Gregoire, Gregor, Gregorio, Greg, Grider, Gregson, Gregerson, Grego, Greggs

Most Common First Names for Gregory

James, Robert, Michael, David, Charles, John, Richard, William, Mary, Steven

Meaning & History

English: from a personal name that was popular throughout Christendom in the Middle Ages. The Greek original, Grēgorios, is a derivative of grēgorein ‘to be awake’, ‘to be watchful’. However, the Latin form, Gregorius, came to be associated by folk etymology with grex, gregis, ‘flock’, ‘herd’, under the influence of the Christian image of the good shepherd. The Greek name was borne in the early Christian centuries by two fathers of the Orthodox Church, St. Gregory Nazianzene (c. 325–390) and St. Gregory of Nyssa (c. 331–395), and later by sixteen popes, starting with Gregory the Great (c. 540–604). It was also the name of 3rd- and 4th-century apostles of Armenia. In North America the English form of the name has absorbed many cognates from other European languages. (For forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988).

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