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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German griffel ‘slate pencil’, modern German Griffel.
  • Dutch : topographic name from Dutch griffe ‘swamp ditch’.
  • German : variant of Gribbel (see Gribble 2).

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