Greatorex
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Greterakes, Derbyshire, literally ‘large paths’, a lead-miners' term for a vertical vein of ore
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡɹeɪtəɹɛks/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Greatorex is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
- GRGreece
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
person from Greterakes, Derbyshire, literally ‘large paths’, a lead-miners' term for a vertical vein of ore.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Greatorex is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Greterakes (Db); first attested William Gretorex 1743 BishamPR (Berks)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
habitational name from a place in Derbyshire called Greterakes.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Thomas Greatorexb. 1758GBEnglish organist
- Henry Wellington Greatorexb. 1816USEnglish American musician
- Eliza Pratt Greatorexb. 1819USUnited States artist (1819-1897)
- Eleanor Greatorexb. 1853USAmerican artist (1854–1908)
- Walter Greatorexb. 1877GBBritish composer (1877–1949)
- Tony Greatorexb. 1905GBAustralian politician (1905–1981)
- Wilfred Greatorexb. 1921GBBritish writer
- Jonathan Greatorexb. 1970English consumer rights campaigner
- Philip Greatorexarchaeologist
- Jane Greatorexarchaeologist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 350 | #61,890 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 331 | #60,790 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 323 | #58,692 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 14 | #101,339 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #185,622 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2000 | 1 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 1 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Greatorex mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Greterakes, Derbyshire, literally ‘large paths’, a lead-miners' term for a vertical vein of ore. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Greatorex?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɹeɪtəɹɛks/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Greatorex have the most bearers?
- Greatorex is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom.
What do you want to know about Greatorex?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/greatorexThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Greatorex”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.