Graven Family History
Graven Name Meaning
topographic name for someone living near a ditch
or moat, from Middle Low German grave ‘ditch’, ‘moat’,
‘channel’. Compare Grabe.possibly a reduced form of any of
various compound habitational names such as Gravenhorst or
Gravenstein.Norwegian: habitational name from any of
several farmsteads so named, from Old Norse grof ‘hollow’,
‘depression’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Graven Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Graven families
 12 - 22  5 - 11 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Graven families
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11 - 20 4 - 10 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Graven families
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4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Graven census records
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Graven Family Origin
Graven Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Graven
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Graven Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Graven census records
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