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Warren

in North Carolina

There are 6,851 people with the last name "Warren" in North Carolina.

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Ranking in North Carolina

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Warren 86
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  1. is 82nd most common Little
  2. is 83rd most common Hicks
  3. is 84th most common Hughes
  4. is 85th most common Owens
  5. is 86th most common Warren
  6. is 87th most common Strickland
  7. is 88th most common West
  8. is 89th most common Ellis
  9. is 90th most common Sanders

Most Common First Names for Warren

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

Meaning & History

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.

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’.

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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