Greeve Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 2
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 1
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 3
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 1
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 3
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Greeve Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Greeve family

Profession Census Frequency
Female Servant 3
Male Servant 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Greeve

Name Census Frequency
Mary Greeve 27
William Greeve 24
John Greeve 20
Elizabeth Greeve 17
James Greeve 16
Ann Greeve 11
Margaret Greeve 9
Henry Greeve 8
Robert Greeve 8
George Greeve 7
Sarah Greeve 7
Walter Greeve 7
Alice Greeve 6
Annie Greeve 6
Ellen Greeve 6
Jane Greeve 6
Thomas Greeve 6
David Greeve 5
Ethel Greeve 5
Joseph Greeve 5
Andrew Greeve 4
Catherine Greeve 4
Charles Greeve 4
Frances Greeve 4
Janet Greeve 4

Greeve Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Grove 67% 26,730
2 Grave 67% 4,519
3 Grieve 83% 3,500
4 Greave 83% 745
5 Garvie 33% 703
6 Greive 83% 605
7 Greeve 100% 388
8 Greve 83% 227
9 Groove 67% 213
10 Grive 67% 172

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The surname Greeve is the 7th most popular variant of Grove.

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