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Grangues
Grangues
Commune
	The church in Grangues
	Location of Grangues
	Grangues Grangues
	Coordinates: 49°16′02″N 0°03′14″W / 49.2672°N 0.0539°W
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Calvados
Arrondissement	Lisieux
Canton	Cabourg
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Denis Moisson
Area 1	6.61 km2 (2.55 sq mi)
Population (2021)	283
• Density	43/km2 (110/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	14316 /14160
Elevation	16–141 m (52–463 ft) ; (avg. 130 m or 430 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Grangues (French pronunciation: [ɡʁɑ̃ɡ] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Calvados department and Normandy region of north-western France.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	161	—
1975	143	−1.68%
1982	180	+3.34%
1990	184	+0.28%
1999	241	+3.04%
2009	246	+0.21%
2014	244	−0.16%
2020	276	+2.08%
Source: INSEE^[3]

Name

The attested forms are de Girangis, without date (cartulary of Préaux) ;^[4] Granchae in 1198 (magni rotuli scacc. p. 58, 2) ;^[5] [Johannes de] Guerengues in 1216 (AC, H 321); [Apud] Grengueis in 1220 ; Grengues in 1282 (AN, J 220,2) ;^[6]^[4] Greyngues in 1282 (cart. norm. n° 996, p. 256) ; Granges Generenciæ in the 13th century (cart. of Préaux) ; Grenguez 14th century ; Grenchiæ 16th century (Lisieux, p. 52).^[5]

This is a medieval toponymic formation, probably old since it is not preceded by the definite article. François de Beaurepaire brings Grangues closer to Goring (Oxford, Garinges 10th century); Goring (Sussex, Garinges 10th century) and Gerringe (Denmark, Gaeringhe 1470), without specifying the etymology.^[4] The two British Gorings admit as etymology, either "property of the family or relatives of a man called *Gāra, an unattested Old English personal name, followed by the Germanic suffix -ingas, ^[7]^[8] or “the people at the end, from the corner of the piece of land”, on Old English gāra 'piece of land' + suffix -ingas.^[7] The Old Norse word geiri influenced by the Old English gāra 'piece of land, probably triangular' > gaire, is well attested in Norman toponymy, generally it gave the microtoponyms La Gare or La Guerre.^[9]^[10]

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
^ ^a ^b ^c François |name1=de Beaurepaire, The Place Names of Calvados (annotated by Dominique Fournier), Paris, L'Harmattan, 2022, p. 201-202, ISBN 978-2-14-028854-8
^ ^a ^b Célestin Hippeau, Topographical Dictionary of Calvados, Paris, 1883, p. 133. [1]
^ Arcisse de Caumont, Monumental Statistics of Calvados, Hardel, Caen, 1862, volume 4 in Arrondissement de Pont-l'Évêque, p. 90
^ ^a ^b Glover, Judith, Sussex Place-Names: Their Origins and Meanings, Countryside Books, 1997 ISBN 978-1-85306-484-5
^ A. D. Mills, A Dictionary of British Place Names, Oxford University Press, Print Publication: 2011, Print ISBN 9780199609086, Published online: 2011, Current Online Version: 2011, ISBN 9780191739446, p. 308 (read online) [2]
^ Élisabeth Ridel, the Vikings and the words: The contribution of ancient Scandinavian to the French language, éditions errance, Paris, 2009, p. 215.
^ Guy Chartier, “Of some Norman toponyms” in Nouvelle revue d'onomastique, 2000, n° 35-36, p. 280 - 281 [3]