When Anna Sophia Gräfin von Promnitz was born about 1765, in Germany, her father, Graf Erdmann Leopold von Promnitz, was 135 and her mother, Eleonore Freiin von Racknitz, was 130.
Swedish: ornamental or habitational name formed with an unexplained (placename) element + the adjectival suffix -in, a derivative of Latin -in(i)us ‘relating to’.
Slovenian: probably a topographic name derived from grad ‘castle’, or from archaic gradina ‘site of ancient fort’.
Galician (Gradín): habitational name from a place called Gradín, in Lugo and Pontevedra provinces (in Galicia, Spain), from Latin (villam) Gratini, from the Latin name Gratinus.
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