McGregory Surname Meaning & Coat of Arms

Arms linked to MacGregor and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

The meaning behind McGregory

Many McGregory families will find their roots under MacGregor, the form most records use. Its meaning, shared with MacGregor, is “The son of Gregory (watchman)”.

Before spelling was fixed, MacGregor was also written McGregory. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. In the 2010 US Census, 632 Americans gave McGregory as their last name (rank 35,582). Names that sound alike, such as McGregor, are easily confused in old records.

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