English: habitational name from Gravely in Cambridgeshire or
Graveley in Hertfordshire. The first is possibly from Old English
græf ‘pit’, ‘trench’ + leah ‘woodland
clearing’. The second is from Old English gr?fe,
graf(a) ‘grove’, ‘copse’ + leah.
Possibly an altered spelling of Swiss Gräffi, a variant
of Graf.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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