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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Hungarian : status name from gróf ‘count’. Compare German Graf.
  • German : variant of Grob.
  • Possibly an Americanized spelling of the Norwegian habitational name Grov, from any of several farmsteads so named, from Old Norse grǫf ‘pit’, ‘hollow’.

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