Graefe Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

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What Graefe means

Anyone researching Graefe should also look under Grave. The family name meaning is “Count”, the same as for Grave.

Graefe is listed among the recognised spellings of Grave. Related forms: Grabe and Grawe. The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Graefe with 404 bearers, at rank 51,512. That is enough to place it in the top 100,000 American surnames. Graefe sounds close to Graf, so it can help to search both.

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