Updated June 9, 2019

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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