Updated June 9, 2019 Share: Family name origins & meanings German (Gröber) : habitational name for someone from any of various places, for example near Potsdam and Jena, named Gröber, or from either of the places near Bitterfeld or Meissen called Gröbern.German (Gröber) : variant of Graber 1.North German : variant of Grover.