Origin Displayed: English

Spelling variations include: Grice, Gryce, Gryse, Grise, Grisewood, DeGrice, Grycie and many more.

First found in Norfolk where conjecturally they were, in 1066, Lords of the Manor of Brockdish, the King's land, whose feudal Lord was William de Noyers, Count of Nevers seated originally at Poitevin and St-Cyr de Nevers in Normandy.

Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Katherine Grice settled in Maryland in 1774; H.Grice arrived in San Francisco in 1850. Other settlers named Gries or Griess are unrelated and are of Germanic origin.