Proctor

in the US

There are 29,128 people with the last name "Proctor" in the United States.

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Proctor 897
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Most Common First Names for Proctor

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



Meaning & History

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.

FOREBEARS John Proctor (d. 1757) was a prominent citizen of Boston, MA, and is buried in the King's Chapel Burying Ground there.


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