The grove Surname
grove Name Meaning and History
- English: topographic name for someone who lived by a grove or thicket, Middle English grove, Old English graf.
- English (Huguenot): Americanized spelling of the French surname Le Grou(x) or Le Greux (see Groulx).
- North German form of Grob.
- North German: habitational name from any of several places named Grove or Groven in Schleswig-Holstein, which derive their name from Middle Low Germany grove ‘ditch’, ‘channel’. In some cases the name is a Dutch or Low German form of Grube.
- Altered form of German Graf.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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