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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced form of MacGrody, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag Rodaigh ‘son of Rodach’, a personal name from rod ‘strong’.
  • Polish : habitational name from any of various places called Grody, named with grody ‘castles’.

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