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Warren

in Illinois

There are 4,394 people with the last name "Warren" in Illinois.

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Ranking in Illinois

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Warren 185
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  1. is 181st most common Bryant
  2. is 182nd most common Hunt
  3. is 183rd most common Schroeder
  4. is 184th most common Carroll
  5. is 185th most common Warren
  6. is 186th most common Black
  7. is 187th most common Freeman
  8. is 188th most common Daniels
  9. is 189th most common Hicks

Most Common First Names for Warren

James, Robert, William, Michael, John, David, Mary, Richard, Linda, Patricia

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Meaning & History

1. English and Irish (of Norman origin): habitational name from La Varrenne in Seine-Maritime, France, named with a Gaulish element probably descriptive of alluvial land or sandy soil.

2. English: topographic name for someone who lived by a game park, or an occupational name for someone employed in one, from Anglo-Norman French warrene or Middle English wareine ‘warren’, ‘piece of land for breeding game’.

3. Irish: adopted as an Englsih form of Gaelic Ó Murnáin (see Murnane, Warner).

FOREBEARS The surname Warren was brought to North America from England independently by many different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Richard Warren, a London merchant, was one of the Pilgrims on the Mayflower. John Warren came to Salem, MA, in 1630 on the Arbella, and was the founder of an influential 18th-century Boston family. Arthur Warren emigrated to Weymouth, MA, before 1638.

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