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Hargreaves
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Origin Of The Surname Hargreaves
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Meaning Of The Surname Hargreaves
From the Grey Grove
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Interesting
Facts About
Hargreaves
Hargreaves is a locational surname, coming from any of the places so-called or similarly spelt across Britain. Locational surnames were traditionally given to a newcomer in a town, where the name of their original place of residence would have been assigned to them as a surname to differentiate them. The place name comes from the Old English element ‘har’ meaning grey and ‘graf’ which meant grove. Therefore towns with this name would theoretically originally have been located next to a grey grove. |
Hargreaves Statistics
Hargreaves is the number 810 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 12,188 share the surname Hargreaves in the UK.
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