First name origin & meaning:
Greek: Watchman
First name variations: Gregorius, Gregorios, Gregori, Gregoire, Gregor, Greger, Gregorio, Gregoor, Griogair, Grioghar, Gregus, Gragos, Greis, Grischa, Grigor, Grigori, Gries, Gero, Greg, Graig, Greig, Gregg, Gregson, Grig, Grigg, Grigson, McGregor
Last name origin & meaning:
English: from a personal name that was popular throughout
Christendom in the Middle Ages. The Greek original,
Grēgorios, is a derivative of grēgorein ‘to be
awake’, ‘to be watchful’. However, the Latin form, Gregorius,
came to be associated by folk etymology with grex,
gregis, ‘flock’, ‘herd’, under the influence of the Christian
image of the good shepherd. The Greek name was borne in the early
Christian centuries by two fathers of the Orthodox Church, St. Gregory
Nazianzene (c. 325–390) and St. Gregory of Nyssa
(c. 331–395), and later by sixteen popes, starting with
Gregory the Great (c. 540–604). It was also the name of 3rd-
and 4th-century apostles of Armenia. In North America the English form
of the name has absorbed many cognates from other European
languages. (For forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988).
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