Graves Family History
Graves Name Meaning
English (northern and eastern England): variant of Grave with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. English: alternatively a variant of Greaves or Grieves . Altered form of German Greff with the addition of excrescent -s a common feature of Americanized surnames. French (southern): topographic name a variant of Grave ‘gravel’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022