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Gregory

in Virginia

There are 3,456 people with the last name "Gregory" in Virginia.

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Gregory 162
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  1. is 158th most common Weaver
  2. is 159th most common Fields
  3. is 160th most common Lawrence
  4. is 161st most common Nichols
  5. is 162nd most common Gregory
  6. is 163rd most common Adkins
  7. is 164th most common Woods
  8. is 165th most common Gardner
  9. is 166th most common Peterson

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Gregory

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

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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