Last name: GROS
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GROS : This last name is indexed 1,186,208 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
GROS : 1: French: nickname for a large or fat man from Old French gros ‘big fat’ from Late Latin grossus of ancient Germanic origin. Compare Legros.2: Jewish (Ashkenazic) and English (Middlesex of Norman origin): variant of Gross.3: Slovenian Polish Czech Slovak and Croatian: from German Gross often applied as a translation into German of corresponding Slavic nicknames or surnames.4: Croatian and Czech (Groš): nickname from groš ‘groschen’ the name of a medieval thick silver coin and later e.g. in Austria of a coin of a small value (see Grosh).
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