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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Danish : from a short form of a Germanic nickname that may be derived from Old High German grātag ‘greedy’.
  • German and Danish : from Middle Low German grese ‘horror’, ‘fear’, a nickname for someone who was feared in the community.
  • German and Danish : habitational name from Gress, a place in Mecklenburg.

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