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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (also Gräff), Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Graf.
  • English : metonymic occupational name for a clerk or scribe, from Anglo-Norman French grafe ‘quill’, ‘pen’ (a derivative of grafer ‘to write’, Late Latin grafare, from Greek graphein).

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