Family name origins & meanings
- German of uncertain origin. Possibly : of uncertain origin. Possibly: a nickname of Slavic origin, from Polish gruby ‘big’, ‘coarse’ or a cognate in some other Slavic language.
- German of uncertain origin. Possibly : a reduced form of Grubenheimer, a name attached to the Waldenses in the 14th century in Germany because they met in isolated places, or a reduced form of Swiss Grubenmann, a variant of Grube.