Gravatt Family History

English (Sussex and Surrey) is a topographic name for someone probably living near a small grove or copse, derived from Middle English gravet and grevet, meaning either ‘small wood’ or ‘trench’.

The true sense of the term is uncertain, as gravet could be a diminutive of Old English grāf or grǣfe, meaning ‘grove’.

Alternatively, it could stem from Old English graf or græfe, which means ‘dug place, trench, or ditch’.

This name is mainly found in the regions of Hampshire, Sussex, and Surrey.