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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : nickname for a large man, from Old French gros ‘big’, ‘fat’, Late Latin grossus, of Germanic origin. See also Legros.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) and English : variant spelling of Gross.
  • Slovenian spelling of German Gross.

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