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The grove Surname

grove Name Meaning and History

  1. English: topographic name for someone who lived by a grove or thicket, Middle English grove, Old English graf.
  2. English (Huguenot): Americanized spelling of the French surname Le Grou(x) or Le Greux (see Groulx).
  3. North German form of Grob.
  4. 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.
  5. Altered form of German Graf.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of grove Families in the US in 1920
Number of grove families
 431-860
 144-430		 1-143
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