Last name: GRIMM
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GRIMM : This last name is indexed 193,274 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
GRIMM : 1: German and Swiss German: nickname for a dour and forbidding individual from Old High German grim ‘stern severe’.2: German and Swiss German: from an ancient Germanic personal name from grīma ‘mask helmet’. This surname (in any of the possible senses; see also 1 above) is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine).3: English: from Middle English grim ‘fierce grim’.
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