Popularity of the last name by country

Spain

• Madrid (135)
• Barcelona (33)
• Ciudad Real (15)
• Granada (11)
• Sevilla (10)
• Valladolid (10)
• Navarra (7)
• Vizcaya (5)
• Guipuzcoa (4)
• Toledo (4)
• Zaragoza (4)
• Burgos (3)
• Cádiz (2)
• Málaga (2)
• Soria (2)
• Valencia (2)
• Álava (1)
• Albacete (1)
• Córdoba (1)
• Gerona (1)
• Guadalajara (1)
• León (1)
• La Rioja (1)
• Murcia (1)
• Palencia (1)
• Salamanca (1)
• Zamora (1)

All countries

• France (1,790,404)
• Belgium (95,925)
• United States (5,937)
• Netherlands (3,211)
• Canada (2,718)
• Algeria (2,262)
• Germany (2,120)
• United Kingdom (1,736)
• Switzerland (1,345)
• Martinique (888)
• Guadeloupe (585)
• Italy (530)
• Spain (423)
• Unknown country (309)
• Morocco (307)
• Viet Nam (265)
• Réunion (245)
• Luxembourg (241)
• New Caledonia (208)
• Tunisia (199)
• Mauritius (174)
• Austria (145)
• Hungary (143)
• Haiti (128)
• Australia (118)
• Turkey (117)
• French Guiana (115)
• Sweden (114)
• Romania (96)
• Russian Federation (84)
• Ireland (74)
• Poland (74)
• Madagascar (64)
• Monaco (56)
• Dominica (52)
• Greece (50)
• Puerto Rico (50)
• Egypt (48)
• Portugal (46)
• Chile (43)

Origine of last name

LEGRAND : French Walloon West Indian (mainly Haiti) and Mauritian: from (Old) French grand grant ‘tall large’ (see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Grand">Grand</a>) with fused masculine definite article le applied as a nickname for a tall man or occasionally as a distinguishing name denoting seniority rather than size. This surname is also found in Britain where it is of Huguenot origin and in the Flemish part of Belgium. Compare <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Lagrand">Lagrand</a> and <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Legrande">Legrande</a>.