Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A surname transferred from the nickname; originally a nickname for someone with a gray beard or hair. · A male given name. · A city, the county seat of Jones County, Georgia. · A minor city in Audubon County, Iowa.
* As an English, Irish, Scottish, and Norman surname, from the placename Graye-sur-Mer in Calvados, from Late Latin Graecus (“Greek”). * Also as an English surname, from the adjective gray. Compare the Irish calque McGreevy. * As a French surname, from Gray, Haute-Saône in France, from the personal name Gradus, a Gallo-Roman/Celtic pronunciation of Gratus, from the name Gratius.
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