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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name for someone from a place called Grauberg ‘gray mountain’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German grau ‘gray’ + Berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’ + the agent suffix -er.

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