Last name: GREY
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Last name frequency
GREY : This last name is indexed 403,307 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
GREY : 1: English Scottish and Irish: variant of Gray.2: German: dialect variant of Grau.3: In some cases also an American shortened and altered form of Ukrainian Grushko: nickname or topographic name derived from a Russian-influenced transliteration of grushka ‘pear pear tree’.
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- Jane (11,567)
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- America (711)
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Most indexed countries
- United Kingdom (217,877)
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- Unknown country (4,574)
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- Germany (2,677)
- Belgium (1,558)
- Netherlands (1,523)
- Switzerland (1,144)
- Austria (967)
- Italy (950)
- Turkey (744)
- India (675)
- Spain (659)
- Morocco (543)
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