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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname for someone with a deformity or peculiarity of the mouth or nose, from Middle High German grans ‘beak’, ‘snout’.
  • German : from a topographic name for someone who lived near a border, from Polish granica, which became German Grenze ‘border’ after the 16th century.

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