The gruber Surname

gruber Name Meaning and History

German (Grüber) and Jewish (Ashkenazic): topographic name for someone who lived in a depression or hollow, from (respectively) Middle High German gruobe, German Grube ‘pit’, ‘hollow’ + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant. As a Jewish name it can also be one of names randomly distributed by government officials.
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): nickname from an inflected form of Yiddish dialect grub ‘rude, impolite’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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gruber Family Facts

Distribution of gruber Families in the US in 1920

Number of gruber families

169-336

57-168

1-56

Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Thread	Author	Replies
Anna Gruber	lrkauffman	0
Obituary - Viola (nee Gruber) Weber (1913-2008)	tcoup1	0
Capt. Richard D Gruber, correction	samiam4life1	0
Capt. Richard D. Gruber	samiam4life1	0
Gruber's of Washington County Maryland	loudenslager54	4
nicolaus Gruber	Laurence Menadue	1
Gruber- Bavaria to Us 1869-1872	Jessica_Elkin	0
Gruber/Gruver/Grover of Luzerne Co. PA	clabk2000	0
GRUBER	Steve Gruber	7
Looking for Gruber's in Buffalo, Ny area	BrenB_1	9

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