Last name: GRAND
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Last name frequency
GRAND : This last name is indexed 1,229,789 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
GRAND : 1: French: nickname from Old French grand grant ‘tall large’ from Latin grandis. See also Grant 1 and 4 compare Degrand and Legrand.2: German: topographic name for someone who lived in a gravelly area from Middle Low German grand ‘coarse gravel’.3: German: nickname from a southern word of uncertain origin meaning ‘frustration anger ire’.4: Danish: nickname from grand ‘pure’.5: English (of Norman origin): variant of Grant.
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