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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Greek : Greek: nickname for a man with graying hair, or who owned a gray horse, from Bulgarian grivŭ ‘gray speckled with blue’, possibly via Aromanian griv ‘gray’, or from the derivative Greek word grivas ‘gray horse’.

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