Given name & surname
Greaves
“brushwood, thicket”
Greaves is a surname from Old English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Greaves goes back to Old English grǣfe, meaning “brushwood, thicket.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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