Family name origins & meanings
- German : from Middle High German grūz ‘grain’, ‘groats’, ‘dregs’; possibly a derogatory occupational nickname for a grain merchant, or a topographic name for someone living on sandy soil.
- German : from a Germanic personal name formed with an element reflected in Gothic hrōtheigs ‘victorious’.
- German : from a pet form of a vernacular form of the Latin personal name Gregorius (see Gregory).