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The grief Surname

grief Name Meaning and History

  1. English (Norfolk): from an Old Norse personal name Greifi, a byname from Old Norse greifi, Old Danish or Old Swedish grefe ‘count’, ‘earl’.
  2. French: nickname from Old French grief ‘sad’.
  3. German: variant spelling of Greif 1.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The grief name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the grief family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of grief Families in the US in 1920
Number of grief families
 16-29
 6-15		 1-5
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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