Given name & surname

Grims

Grims is a surname from Old Norse.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Grims comes from Old Norse.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Grims’s family of names

In English usage, Grims as a surname has a related form in GRIME.

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Nicknames & forms 1

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Similar names

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Old Norse

Gryms

Gryms is a surname from Old Norse.

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Old Norse

Grymes

Grymes is a surname from Old Norse.

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Old Norse

Gryme

Gryme is a surname from Old Norse.

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Old Norse

Gøril

“spear” · “battle”

No U.S. birth series

>99% girls

Germanic

Grímur

Grímur is a masculine given name from Old Norse, ultimately from Proto-Germanic. It is used in Faroese and Icelandic.

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Old Norse

Grímkell

Grímkell is a masculine given name from Old Norse. It is used in Icelandic.

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>99% boys

Old Norse

Grigsby

“farmstead”

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50% boys · 50% girls

Norwegian · Norse

Gro

“one who works the earth”

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1% boys · 99% girls

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