Meaning & History
Topographic name for someone who owned or lived by a meadow, or a metonymic occupational name for someone who made or sold hay, from Middle English gras, Middle High German gras "grass, pasture, grazing".
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Type Surname (from occupation)
Usage Scottish
Meaning & History
Occupational name, reduced from Gaelic greusaiche "shoemaker". A certain John Grasse alias Cordonar (Middle English cordewaner "shoemaker") is recorded in Scotland in 1539.
Type Surname (from nickname)
Usage Romansh
Meaning & History
Derived from Romansh grass "fat".