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.