South German (Gräble): occupational name for a grave or
ditch digger, from an agent noun from Middle High German graben
‘ditch’; in some cases the name may be topographic, denoting someone
who lived by a ditch.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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