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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for someone living near a small grove or copse, from Old English grāfet, grǣfet ‘little grove’ (from Old English grāf(e), grǣfe ‘grove’, ‘copse’ + the diminutive suffix -et).

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