Last name: LEGRAND
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Last name frequency
LEGRAND : This last name is indexed 2,144,196 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
LEGRAND : French Walloon West Indian (mainly Haiti) and Mauritian: from (Old) French grand grant ‘tall large’ (see Grand) 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 Lagrand and Legrande.
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