Submitted Name (1) Save Type Surname (from occupation) Usage English Edit Status Status [show contributorhide contributor] Added 2/19/2008 by LuzC Meaning & History Occupational name from Middle English greyve "steward", from Old Norse greifi or Low German greve
Submitted Name (2) Save Type Surname (from location) Usage English Edit Status Status [show contributorhide contributor] Added 2/19/2008 by LuzC Meaning & History Topographic name, a variant of Grove.
Submitted Name (3) Save Type Surname (from location) Usage French Edit Status Status [show contributorhide contributor] Added 2/19/2008 by LuzC Meaning & History Topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of gravelly soil, from Old French grave "gravel" (of Celtic origin).
Submitted Name (4) Save Type Surname (from location) Usage German Edit Status Status [show contributorhide contributor] Added 2/19/2008 by LuzC Meaning & History 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.