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10,701 surnames, from three places in Orange County Indexed:

• The historical records: 8,398 surnames named in the county’s deeds, court minutes, wills, marriages, tax lists and records of enslaved people, with every record on the surname’s page, by decade.
• The chronology: 3,718 surnames of people named in a dated event, from the names index.
• Books and archives: 1,333 surnames in the library catalogs’ subject headings, for a family (genealogies and family papers) or a person (works about them).

The most documented surnames

• Albright 595 records · 8 in the chronology
• Allen 652 records · 29 in the chronology · 3 in books
• Allison 743 records · 15 in the chronology
• Anderson 539 records · 31 in the chronology · 6 in books
• Armstrong 577 records · 8 in the chronology · 4 in books
• Barbee 815 records · 19 in the chronology · 1 in books
• Benton 467 records · 12 in the chronology · 2 in books
• Brown 653 records · 80 in the chronology · 11 in books
• Cain 661 records · 7 in the chronology · 2 in books
• Campbell 777 records · 20 in the chronology · 3 in books
• Carrington 827 records · 5 in the chronology
• Cate 669 records · 7 in the chronology · 1 in books
• Cates 487 records · 40 in the chronology · 1 in books
• Clark 672 records · 38 in the chronology · 9 in books
• Craig 643 records · 31 in the chronology · 5 in books
• Davis 664 records · 75 in the chronology · 9 in books
• Dixon 530 records · 12 in the chronology · 4 in books
• Durham 491 records · 30 in the chronology · 4 in books
• Edwards 510 records · 19 in the chronology · 7 in books
• Faucett 933 records · 19 in the chronology · 1 in books
• Granville 750 records
• Hall 719 records · 38 in the chronology · 4 in books
• Harris 863 records · 64 in the chronology · 8 in books
• Hart 752 records · 10 in the chronology · 2 in books
• Herndon 532 records · 5 in the chronology · 1 in books
• Holt 1,228 records · 23 in the chronology · 2 in books
• Jackson 569 records · 31 in the chronology · 10 in books
• Johnston 767 records · 30 in the chronology · 11 in books
• Jones 1,049 records · 104 in the chronology · 26 in books
• King 860 records · 28 in the chronology · 4 in books
• Kirkland 445 records · 25 in the chronology · 4 in books
• Latta 700 records · 28 in the chronology · 2 in books
• Lloyd 516 records · 80 in the chronology · 3 in books
• Long 505 records · 29 in the chronology · 4 in books
• Mangum 446 records · 25 in the chronology · 9 in books
• McCauley 933 records · 21 in the chronology · 3 in books
• Mebane 985 records · 25 in the chronology · 3 in books
• Moore 1,304 records · 45 in the chronology · 10 in books
• Morrow 486 records · 33 in the chronology · 1 in books
• Nichols 451 records · 14 in the chronology · 1 in books
• Parker 432 records · 45 in the chronology · 4 in books
• Patterson 993 records · 56 in the chronology · 8 in books
• Ray 1,473 records · 36 in the chronology · 1 in books
• Rhodes 689 records · 6 in the chronology · 2 in books
• Riley 460 records · 14 in the chronology · 1 in books
• Smith 1,389 records · 100 in the chronology · 21 in books
• Strayhorn 636 records · 32 in the chronology · 2 in books
• Tate 645 records · 11 in the chronology · 4 in books
• Taylor 1,232 records · 43 in the chronology · 8 in books
• Thompson 2,573 records · 74 in the chronology · 11 in books
• Trice 716 records · 8 in the chronology · 1 in books
• Turner 717 records · 36 in the chronology · 5 in books
• Turrentine 482 records · 11 in the chronology
• Walker 1,032 records · 55 in the chronology · 5 in books
• Watson 585 records · 20 in the chronology · 4 in books
• Webb 764 records · 62 in the chronology · 8 in books
• Whitted 468 records · 32 in the chronology · 1 in books
• Williams 786 records · 68 in the chronology · 14 in books
• Wilson 870 records · 58 in the chronology · 9 in books
• Woods 983 records · 25 in the chronology · 1 in books

To search a full name or a spelling across every record collection, use the historical records search.