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griff Name Meaning and History

  1. 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.
  2. Welsh: short form of Griffith.
  3. Possibly also a reduced form of Irish McGriff.
  4. German: variant of Greif 1.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of griff Families in the US in 1920
Number of griff families
 15-27
 6-14		 1-5
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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