as a Last Name
- 272,398
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Gray
Meaning & Origins
English: nickname for someone with gray hair or a gray beard, from Old English græg ‘gray’. In Scotland and Ireland it has been used as a translation of various Gaelic surnames derived from riabhach ‘brindled’, ‘gray’ (see Reavey). In North America this name has assimilated names with similar meaning from other European languages.
| 75th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 272,398
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Maine
- has the most people named Gray per capita
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