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gruber Name Meaning and History

  1. 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.
  2. 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
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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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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