Kray 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 1
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 1
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 5
Middlesex 1
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 1
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
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

Kray Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Kray family

Profession Census Frequency
Female Servant 2
Independent 1
J Goldsmith 1
Nurse 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Kray

Name Census Frequency
James Kray 13
John Kray 10
Sarah Kray 10
Frederick Kray 9
Mary Kray 9
Henry Kray 6
Alice Kray 5
George Kray 5
Julia Kray 5
Emma Kray 4
Jane Kray 4
Elizabeth Kray 3
Richard Kray 3
Rose Kray 3
Samuel Kray 3
William Kray 3
Ada Kray 2
Ann Kray 2
Cecilia Kray 2
Charles Kray 2
Clement Kray 2
Edith Kray 2
Ellen Kray 2
Esther Kray 2
Hannah Kray 2

Kray Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Cray 75% 6,437
2 Keary 60% 1,612
3 Kery 50% 348
4 Crawe 40% 324
5 Kearey 50% 242
6 Kray 100% 159
7 Kary 50% 140
8 Akery 40% 136
9 Craye 60% 125
10 Keery 40% 114
11 Craigh 33% 109

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The surname Kray is the 6th most popular variant of Cray.

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