South German: from Middle High German gras ‘grass’ + the
agent suffix -er, a topographic name for someone who owned or
lived on a patch of meadowland or an occupational name for a reaper
who cut grass with a sickle for fresh fodder.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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