Graff Family History
Graff Name Meaning
German (also Gräff), Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic):
variant of Graf.English: metonymic occupational name
for a clerk or scribe, from Anglo-Norman French grafe ‘quill’,
‘pen’ (a derivative of grafer ‘to write’, Late Latin
grafare, from Greek graphein).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Graff
Name Distribution of Graff Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Graff families
 23 - 43  8 - 22 |
 1 - 7  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Graff last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Graff census records
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Graff Family Origin
Graff Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Graff families immigrated
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Graff Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Graff census records
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Military Service by Graff
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