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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : from a derivative of grave ‘official’, ‘governor’, ‘count’ (see Graef).
  • German : variant of Greve.
  • German : habitational name from either of two places so named, one near Münster, the other in Mecklenburg.

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