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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : nickname for an irascible person, from an inflected form of Middle High German graz ‘intense’, ‘angry’.
  • South German (Grässer) : from Middle High German gras ‘grass’ + the agent suffix -er (see Graser).
  • Swiss German : nickname for a complainer, from Middle High German graz ‘passionate’, ‘furious’.

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