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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name from Middle High German graben ‘ditch’, ‘moat’ or a habitational name from a place named with this word, the -er suffix denoting an inhabitant.
  • German (Gräbner) : variant of Graber.
  • Slovenian (eastern Slovenia) : topographic name from a derivative of graben ‘small ravine’, a German borrowing that replaced the Slovenian word grapa with the same meaning.

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