as a Last Name
- 38,609
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Proctor
Meaning & Origins
English (northern): occupational name from Middle English prok(e)tour ‘steward’ (reduced from Old French procurateour, Latin procurator ‘agent’, from procurare ‘to manage’). The term was used most commonly of an attorney in a spiritual court, but also of other officials such as collectors of taxes and agents licensed to collect alms on behalf of lepers and enclosed orders of monks.
| 906th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 38,609
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- District of Columbia
- has the most people named Proctor per capita
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