The griff Surname
griff Name Meaning and History
- English: topographic name for someone living near a pit or hollow, from Old Norse gryfja ‘pit’, ‘hollow’, or a habitational name from Griff in Warwickshire, Griffe in Derbyshire, or Griff Farm in Rievaulx, North Yorkshire, all probably named with this word.
- Welsh: short form of Griffith.
- Possibly also a reduced form of Irish McGriff.
- German: variant of Greif 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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