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Warren

in the US

There are 117,892 people with the last name "Warren" in the United States.

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Ranking in the US

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Warren 157
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  1. is 153rd most common Dixon
  2. is 154th most common Ramos
  3. is 155th most common Rice
  4. is 156th most common Mills
  5. is 157th most common Warren
  6. is 158th most common Schmidt
  7. is 159th most common Boyd
  8. is 160th most common Patel
  9. is 161st most common Holmes

Most Common First Names for Warren

James, Robert, John, William, David, Michael, 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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