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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from a Norman personal name Grimbald, composed of the Germanic elements grīm ‘mask’, ‘helmet’ + bald, bold ‘bold’, ‘brave’.
  • Respelling of German Gribbel, from a pet form of a personal name formed with Greif.

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