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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : habitational name from someone from Lagrave (Hautes-Alpes) named with grave ‘gravel’, or topographic name from this word.
  • French : nickname for a solemn person, from French grave ‘solemn’, ‘serious’.

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