The grave Surname

grave Name Meaning and History

English: occupational name from Middle English greyve ‘steward’, from Old Norse greifi or Low German greve (see Graf).
English: topographic name, a variant of Grove.
French: topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of gravelly soil, from Old French grave ‘gravel’ (of Celtic origin).
North German: either from the northern form of Graf, but more commonly a topographic name from Middle Low German grave ‘ditch’, ‘moat’, ‘channel’, or a habitational name from any of several places in northern Germany named with this word.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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grave Family Facts

Distribution of grave Families in the US in 1920

Number of grave families

14-26

5-13

1-4

Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 10 - Messages: 20

Thread	Author	Replies
Catherine Grave - Died Carlisle, England May 1847	bldobson	0
Grave surname, London, ENG, 1830-1950	Wendy Coombes	1
Josephine Grave, born Germany 1842	Jean	0
Allen Grave (born 1811) m. Mary Teas, MN	leeannehobbs	8
Johann Grave of Hamburg, Germany, d. after 1534 in Hamburg	John Schultze	1
GRAVE, John/Jane/Henry - 1880 Ohio Census	LisaBopBop	0
Joseph Grave and his wife Jane McGrath of NSW Australia	Shannon Klohe	0
Marie Elizabeth Grave in Hamilton Co. (Cincinnati) Ohio; daughter born 1860	alwayshope88	0
Maria GRAVE b 1790 - Somerset Cty, PA md S. Saylor	gregory_lantay	0
Eunice Elizabeth Grave, Minn. Wisconsin area, married Franklin Donald Stone	doris370	0

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