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grave Name Meaning and History

  1. English: occupational name from Middle English greyve ‘steward’, from Old Norse greifi or Low German greve (see Graf).
  2. English: topographic name, a variant of Grove.
  3. French: topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of gravelly soil, from Old French grave ‘gravel’ (of Celtic origin).
  4. North German: 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.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the grave family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of grave Families in the US in 1920
Number of grave families
 14-26
 5-13		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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