Definitions for gresham
ˈgrɛʃ əmgre·sham

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1. Gresham, Sir Thomas Greshamnoun

   English financier (1519-1579)

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1. Greshamnoun

   An English habitational surname from a place in Norfolk whose name means grassy homestead.

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1. gresham

   Gresham is a city located in Multnomah County, Oregon, United States, in the eastern part of the Portland metropolitan area. It is named after Walter Quinton Gresham, a United States Postmaster General. Alternatively, in an economic context, "Gresham" could refer to "Gresham's Law" - an economic principle that states "bad money drives out good" proposed by Sir Thomas Gresham, a 16th-century financial agent of the English Crown in the city of Antwerp.

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1. Gresham

   Gresham is a city located in Multnomah County, Oregon, United States immediately east of Portland. It was named after the American Civil War general, and Postmaster General, Walter Quinton Gresham. The population was 105,594 at the 2010 census. This makes Gresham the fourth largest city in Oregon.

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1. Gresham

   it appears to mean contained, because every neighborhood in every city that has the name Gresham is populated with low income African / Americans

   
   

   Submitted by anonymous on June 13, 2019  

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1. GRESHAM

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Gresham is ranked #3162 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Gresham surname appeared 11,412 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 4 would have the surname Gresham.
   
   61.4% or 7,016 total occurrences were White.
   33.1% or 3,787 total occurrences were Black.
   2.2% or 258 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   2.2% or 258 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   0.4% or 51 total occurrences were Asian.
   0.3% or 43 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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1. • Financier

Usage in printed sourcesFrom: 

1. [["1740","2"],["1801","1"],["1839","400"],["1846","1"],["1850","4"],["1868","1"],["1871","2"],["1876","1"],["1877","4"],["1878","1"],["1883","2"],["1885","1"],["1888","4"],["1890","4"],["1891","1"],["1892","3"],["1893","5"],["1895","8"],["1896","4"],["1897","6"],["1898","1"],["1899","1"],["1900","1"],["1903","1"],["1904","1"],["1905","3"],["1907","2"],["1908","2"],["1909","1"],["1910","1"],["1912","1"],["1915","1"],["1916","5"],["1919","46"],["1920","3"],["1921","1"],["1923","1"],["1924","1"],["1926","7"],["1928","2"],["1929","4"],["1933","1"],["1934","1"],["1935","14"],["1936","1"],["1938","1"],["1939","3"],["1940","3"],["1946","1"],["1948","1"],["1949","4"],["1950","1"],["1951","5"],["1953","3"],["1954","1"],["1955","2"],["1957","6"],["1958","1"],["1959","1"],["1960","6"],["1962","2"],["1963","3"],["1964","62"],["1965","26"],["1966","3"],["1967","4"],["1968","3"],["1969","2"],["1970","4"],["1971","3"],["1972","5"],["1973","10"],["1974","17"],["1975","18"],["1976","7"],["1977","67"],["1978","2"],["1980","25"],["1981","1"],["1982","3"],["1983","1"],["1984","5"],["1985","7"],["1986","5"],["1987","6"],["1988","1"],["1989","5"],["1990","3"],["1991","1"],["1992","15"],["1993","1"],["1994","2"],["1995","5"],["1996","2"],["1997","9"],["1998","10"],["1999","13"],["2000","5"],["2001","3"],["2002","9"],["2003","9"],["2004","5"],["2005","9"],["2006","4"],["2007","21"],["2008","9"]]

How to pronounce gresham?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of gresham in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of gresham in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=gresham
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gresham
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=gresham
5. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
6. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=gresham