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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a Germanic personal name formed with a cognate of Gothic hrōtheigs ‘victorious’.
  • German : variant of Grob.
  • German : from Gropp ‘grouper’ (the fish); possibly a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman, or a nickname for someone with a large head and wide mouth like a grouper.

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