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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : topographic name from Polish grab ‘hornbeam’.
  • German : topographic name, from Middle High German grabe(n) ‘ditch’, ‘(track alongside a) moat’. This name is also found in the German-speaking part of Switzerland.

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