Family name origins & meanings
- Dutch : nickname for a dour and forbidding person, from Middle Dutch grim, grem ‘stern’, ‘severe’.
- English : nickname with the same meaning as 1, from Old English grim ‘fierce’, ‘grim’.
- Respelling of German Grimm.
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