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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name from Middle High German grabe(n) ‘ditch’, ‘(track alongside a) moat’ + stein ‘rock’.
  • German : habitational name from Grafenstein near Wohlau, Silesia.

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