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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Norfolk) : from an Old Norse personal name Greifi, a byname from Old Norse greifi, Old Danish or Old Swedish grefe ‘count’, ‘earl’.
  • French : nickname from Old French grief ‘sad’.
  • German : variant spelling of Greif 1.

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