Griff Family History
Griff Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone living near a pit or
hollow, from Old Norse gryfja ‘pit’, ‘hollow’, or a
habitational name from Griff in Warwickshire, Griffe in Derbyshire, or
Griff Farm in Rievaulx, North Yorkshire, all probably named with this
word.Welsh: short form of Griffith.Possibly
also a reduced form of Irish McGriff.German: variant of
Greif 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Griff Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Griff families
 15 - 27  6 - 14 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Griff families
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14 - 25 5 - 13 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Griff Family Origin
Griff Immigration Information
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Griff Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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