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First name origin & meaning:

English: One who tends the groves

First name variations: Grove

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. North German: occupational name for a ditch or grave digger, from Middle Low German grove ‘hollow’, ‘grave’.
  2. Americanized form of German and Swiss Gruber.
  3. Southern English: topographic name for someone who lived by a grove, a variant of Grove 1 + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.
  4. Indian (Panjab): Hindu and Sikh name of unknown origin.

This name appears in the following lists: Flowers and Trees, Presidents' Kids, U.S. Presidents