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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from Grone near Göttingen or other places so named in Lower Saxony.
  • North German : variant of Grün (see Gruen).
  • North German : unflattering nickname for a lecher, from Middle Low German grone ‘lascivious’.

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