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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : from Middle High German gras ‘grass’ + the agent suffix -er, a topographic name for someone who owned or lived on a patch of meadowland or an occupational name for a reaper who cut grass with a sickle for fresh fodder.

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