Tregory

Transferred use of the surname Tregory.

The meaning of the name Tregurtha is not wholly certain: one source states that it is derived from Cornish tre-gorha meaning "the town for hay" or "the hay town", while an other source states that it is derived from Cornish tre-kerghan meaning "homestead of oats". Yet another source states that it is either derived from Cornish tre-c(g)ar(dh)then meaning "homestead with a thicket" or from Cornish tre-gerthan meaning "rowan-tree farm". All etymologies are different from each other, but have one thing in common with each other: all use the Cornish word tre meaning "homestead, dwelling" as well as "settlement, village". As such, it seems that at least the first element of the name is reasonably certain (or at least more so than the second element). Also compare other surnames of Cornish origin, such as Trevelyan.

There are no well-known bearers of Tregory as a surname and as a given name, which is not very surprising, considering that the surname was already quite rare to begin with (and so the frequency of the name as a given name is even lower). But you can find a few living bearers if you carefully look through Google and Facebook. A fair number of the (often American) men who have this name for a given name, tend to be nicknamed Treg. In the meantime, it might perhaps be worth noting that there is at least one well-known bearer of the surname Tregury, which has the same etymological origin (as I mentioned earlier). This is Michael Tregury (1399-1471), a distinguished medieval archbishop and scholar of Cornish origin.