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grill Name Meaning and History

  1. English: nickname for a fierce or cruel man, from Middle English grill(e) ‘angry’, ‘vicious’ (from Old English gryllan ‘to rage’, ‘to gnash the teeth’; compare 4).
  2. German: nickname for a cheerful person, from Middle High German grille ‘cricket’ (Old High German grillo, from Late Latin grillus, Greek gryllos). The insect is widely supposed to be of a cheerful disposition, no doubt because of its habit of infesting hearths and warm places. The vocabulary word is confined largely to southern Germany and Austria, and it is in this region that the surname is most frequent.
  3. German: habitational name from any of eight places in Upper Bavaria and Austria, perhaps so named from Middle High German grille ‘cricket’.
  4. North German: nickname for an angry man from Middle Low German grellen ‘to be furious’, ‘to shriek’. Compare 1.

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Distribution of grill Families in the US in 1920
Vermont: Less than 1% (0 of 593)New Hampshire: Less than 1% (1 of 593)Maryland: 4% (22 of 593)Delaware: Less than 1% (1 of 593)New Jersey: 3% (16 of 593)Connecticut: 1% (4 of 593)Rhode Island: Less than 1% (1 of 593)Massachusetts: Less than 1% (2 of 593)Hawaii: Less than 1% (1 of 593)Alaska: Less than 1% (1 of 593)California: 3% (17 of 593)Nevada: Less than 1% (1 of 593)Oregon: 2% (9 of 593)Washington: 2% (10 of 593)Idaho: Less than 1% (0 of 593)Utah: 1% (4 of 593)Arizona: Less than 1% (0 of 593)New Mexico: Less than 1% (0 of 593)Colorado: 2% (10 of 593)Wyoming: Less than 1% (0 of 593)Montana: 1% (4 of 593)North Dakota: 1% (5 of 593)South Dakota: Less than 1% (2 of 593)Nebraska: 1% (3 of 593)Kansas: 2% (11 of 593)Oklahoma: 1% (4 of 593)Texas: 2% (10 of 593)Minnesota: 2% (10 of 593)Iowa: 4% (23 of 593)Missouri: 2% (11 of 593)Arkansas: 1% (4 of 593)Louisiana: Less than 1% (1 of 593)Illinois: 8% (49 of 593)Wisconsin: 5% (30 of 593)Michigan: 6% (38 of 593)Indiana: 3% (15 of 593)Ohio: 9% (53 of 593)Kentucky: Less than 1% (0 of 593)West Virginia: 1% (7 of 593)Tennessee: 1% (4 of 593)Mississippi: Less than 1% (0 of 593)Alabama: Less than 1% (2 of 593)Florida: Less than 1% (2 of 593)Georgia: Less than 1% (2 of 593)South Carolina: 1% (4 of 593)North Carolina: 2% (9 of 593)Virginia: Less than 1% (0 of 593)Maryland: 4% (22 of 593)Delaware: Less than 1% (1 of 593)New Jersey: 3% (16 of 593)Pennsylvania: 14% (84 of 593)New York: 17% (101 of 593)Connecticut: 1% (4 of 593)Rhode Island: Less than 1% (1 of 593)Massachusetts: Less than 1% (2 of 593)Vermont: Less than 1% (0 of 593)New Hampshire: Less than 1% (1 of 593)Maine: Less than 1% (2 of 593)
Number of grill families
 52-101
 18-51		 1-17
 0
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Grill/Early PA-Ohio-west JohnLaird91 30
irish grills red58fox 1
John Grill CSubject53 2
ferdinand grill kperry 0
GRILL? Jean Hines 3
Mathias Grill Family Mitterdorf, Austria Diane Grill Condon 2
George/Phillip George Groll/Pirkel 1
Emma Masquelier m. Grill LynnieGrill 0
Alfred Grill chrisgarff 0
Brothers Grill: Joseph H., b. ca. 1867, Josiah F., b. 1868 jebauer_1 0
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