Gregg (surname)

For other things named Greg and Gregg, see Greg (disambiguation) and Gregg (disambiguation).

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.

  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.