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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from a Germanic personal name Grippo, from grīm ‘mask’, ‘helmet’.
  • Italian : from the Calabrian dialect word grippa ‘wrinkle’, probably a nickname for someone with a wrinkled complexion.

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