Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from Gravely in Cambridgeshire or Graveley in Hertfordshire. The first is possibly from Old English græf ‘pit’, ‘trench’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. The second is from Old English grǣfe, grāf(a) ‘grove’, ‘copse’ + lēah.
- Possibly an altered spelling of Swiss Gräffi, a variant of Graf.