Gregg (surname)

Gregg and Greg are surnames of English or Scottish origin. In England, they are variant forms of the surname Gregory.[1] The surnames are first recorded as Gregge in 1234, within the Liber feodorum, a document compiled in the reign of Henry II of England. Another early instance of the name is Gregge, recorded in 1306, within the Feet of Fines (for Essex); and as Greggez in 1504, within the Register of the Freemen of the City of York.[2]

Gregg is also a Scottish surname, a shorthand variant of the Highland Clan Gregor or MacGregor.

People with the surname Gregg

People with the surname Greg

References

  1. "What's in a name?". www.ancestry.com. Retrieved 8 December 2009.
  2. Reaney, Percy Hilde; Wilson, Richard Middlewood (2006). A Dictionary of English Surnames (3rd ed.). London: Routledge. p. 1413. ISBN 0-203-99355-1.
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