Family name origins & meanings
- German : topographic name for someone who lived in a depression or hollow, from Middle High German gruobe ‘pit’, ‘hollow’. See also Gruber.
- German : from a personal name Grubo, which merged completely with 1.
- German : The earliest known American bearer of the surname Grube was the Moravian missionary Bernhard Adam Grube, who was born in 1715 in Thüringen, at Walschleben near Erfurt, Germany. He was sent to PA in the spring of 1748, where he was a teacher. Subsequently, he volunteered for work among the Indians. He lived out his years in Bethlehem, PA.