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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name for an engraver, from Old English grafere, græfere ‘engraver’, ‘sculptor’ (Old French graveur). It is possible that the name was also an occupational name for a miner, from Old English grafan ‘to dig’.
  • German (also Gräver) : variant of Graber.

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