Greive Last Name: Meaning and Heraldic Roots

Greive and Grieve are two spellings with one history. The family name meaning is “Farm overseer”, the same as for Grieve.

A variant of Grieve

Greive is listed among the recognised spellings of Grieve. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard. You may also find the name written Grieves.

According to the 2010 US Census, the Greive surname had 210 bearers. It sits within the 100,000 most common last names in the country.

Heraldry and the Greive name

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Greive, so the heraldry linked to Grieve is a starting point, not an automatic right.

Get the complete Greive report, with a museum-style coat of arms.