Grave

Occupational name from Middle English greyve "steward", from Old Norse greifi or Low German greve

Topographic name, a variant of GROVE.

Topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of gravelly soil, from Old French grave "gravel" (of Celtic origin).

Either from the northern form of GRAF, but more commonly a topographic name from Middle Low German grave "ditch", "moat", "channel", or a habitational name from any of several places in northern Germany named with this word.