German (Grüber) and Jewish (Ashkenazic): topographic
name for someone who lived in a depression or hollow, from
(respectively) Middle High German gruobe, German Grube
‘pit’, ‘hollow’ + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant. As a
Jewish name it can also be one of names randomly distributed by
government officials.Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): nickname from
an inflected form of Yiddish dialect grub ‘rude, impolite’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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