The gress Surname
gress Name Meaning and History
- from a short form of a Germanic nickname that may be derived from Old High German gratag ‘greedy’.
- from Middle Low German grese ‘horror’, ‘fear’, a nickname for someone who was feared in the community.
- habitational name from Gress, a place in Mecklenburg.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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