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Gregory

in North Carolina

There are 4,129 people with the last name "Gregory" in North Carolina.

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Ranking in North Carolina

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Gregory 198
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  1. is 194th most common Grant
  2. is 195th most common Rhodes
  3. is 196th most common Chapman
  4. is 197th most common Brewer
  5. is 198th most common Gregory
  6. is 199th most common Lawrence
  7. is 200th most common Gordon
  8. is 201st most common Porter
  9. is 202nd most common Lawson

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Gregory

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

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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