English (East Anglia): perhaps a habitational name from a house
bearing the sign of a bunch of grapes. The vocabulary word is attested
from the 13th century (at first in the compound wingrape), and
comes from Old French grape, which is probably related to a
Germanic element meaning ‘hook’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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