Spelling variations include: Audet, Audey, Auday, Audé, Audaie, Audais, Auddet, Auddey, Audday, Auddé, Auddaie, Auddais, Odet, Oday, Odé, Odaie, Odais, Oddey, Oddet, Odday, Oddé, Oddaie and many more.

First found in Savoie, where this ancient family has been seated since early times.

Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Nicolas Audet, son of Nicolas and Magdelaine Després married Marie-Louise Chabot, daughter of Mathurin and Marie Mésange at Saint-Laurent in 1697; Nicolas Audet, son of Innocent and Vincente Reine de Poitiers married Madeleine Després, daughter of François and Madeleine Legrand de Paris at Sainte-Famille in 1670.

Spelling variations include: Grieves, Grieve, Greve, Greves, Greeves, Greaves, Greave, Griveson, Greaveson, Greavson and many more.

First found in Derbyshire where they held a family seat from very early times.

Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Captain Thomas Graves, who travelled on the first ship to Jamestown, Va. in 1607; Jane Grieves purchased land in Delaware in 1682; Admiral Greaves settled in Savannah Ga. in 1823.