Grave

Variant of Graves.

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.