Last Name GREATOREX

Summary/Contribute


Meaning Local: At the great ridge. Also, 'at the great rake or rakes.' In Furness and county Cumberland it seems to have been a sheep-track up the fells. ;Ridge' has been sharpened to 'rex.'
Origin English

Rank 58,692 (2000 US census)
Count 323 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 95.05%, or 307 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • undisclosed % as black,
  • 0%, or 0 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0%, or 0 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • undisclosed % as two or more races, and
  • 3.1%, or 10 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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