Type Surname (from location)
Usage English
Meaning & History
Name for someone who lived by a grove or thicket, Middle English grove, Old English graf.
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Meaning & History
Americanized spelling of the French surname Le Grou(x)or Le Greux (see Groulx)
Type Surname (from location)
Usage German
Meaning & History
Name from any of several places named Grove or Groven, which derive their name from Middle Low Germany grove ‘ditch’, ‘channel’. In some cases the name is a Dutch or Low German form of Grube.