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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French and English : nickname from Old French grand, grant ‘tall’, ‘large’ (occasionally used to denote seniority rather than size), with the French definite article le. It was taken to the U.S. also as Huguenot name.

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