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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French form of Swiss German von Graffenried, a habitational name from an unidentified place.
  • Christoph von Graffenried (1661–1743) was the leader of a group of immigrants from Switzerland and the Palatinate in 1710, who founded a German-speaking settlement at New Bern, NC.

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