Last name: GROFF

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GROFF : This last name is indexed 50,790 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

GROFF : 1: Americanized form of German Graff.2: Americanized form of Hungarian and Slovak Gróf Czech Slovenian and Croatian Grof ‘count’. The surname Groff is also found in Hungary where it is very rare.3: Americanized form of Norwegian Grov: habitational name from any of several farmsteads so called from Old Norse grǫf ‘hollow depression’.4: Dutch (De Groff): nickname for a coarse heavyweight from Middle Dutch grof ‘crude coarse beefy’.

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