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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Switzerland) : nickname for a strong, heavy man, or for a lout, from Middle High German g(e)rop ‘coarse’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from Yiddish grob, cognate with 1, which also means ‘fat’ and may have been applied in this sense.

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