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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Altered spelling of Grüwel(l), an Alemannic form of Gruevel.
  • Possibly an altered spelling of Dutch Grouwels or Grauwels, a nickname from Middle Dutch gruwel ‘fright’, ‘terror’.

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