Names

Occupational name for a steward, derived from Middle English greyve, related to the German title Graf.

Derived from a Norman place name Grainville.

Derived from Norman French meaning “grand, tall, large, great”.

Means “farm bailiff” from Old French grangier, ultimately from Latin granum meaning “grain”. It is borne in the Harry Potter novels by Harry’s friend Hermione Granger.

Originally denoted a person from Gran, the German name for Esztergom, a city in northern Hungary.

Variant of Graham.

From Swedish gran meaning “spruce”.

Derived from the English place name Grantham, which probably meant “gravelly homestead” in Old English. The surname was first taken to Scotland in the 12th century by William de Graham [1].

From the German noble title Graf meaning “count”, ultimately from Greek γραφεύς (grapheus) meaning “scribe”.

Variant of Graham.