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This page represents the following Surnames: Grant.
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Grant Name Meaning
A medieval nickname applied to a large person, or a distinguishing name for the senior, more important of two or more people with the same name. (in both cases from Anglo-Norman graund, graunt ‘Large, tall’, from Old French grand, grant). From the Old English personnal name Granta.
Also associated with Grand, Grantham and Grantown.
Grant Name Meaning and History
English and (especially) Scottish (of Norman origin), and French: nickname from Anglo-Norman French graund, graunt ‘tall’, ‘large’ (Old French grand, grant, from Latin grandis), given either to a person of remarkable size, or else in a relative way to distinguish two bearers of the same personal name, often representatives of different generations within the same family.
English and Scottish: from a medieval personal name, probably a survival into Middle English of the Old English byname Granta (see Grantham).
Probably a respelling of German Grandt or Grand.
Grantham Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from Grantham in Lincolnshire, of uncertain origin. The final element is Old English ham ‘homestead’; the first may be Old English grand ‘gravel’ or perhaps a personal name Granta, which probably originated as a byname meaning ‘snarler’. See also Graham.
Graham Name Meaning and History
Scottish and English: habitational name from Grantham in Lincolnshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Graham (as well as Grantham, Grandham, and Granham).
Grandt Name Meaning and History
German: topographic name for someone who lived in a gravelly area, from Middle Low German grand ‘coarse gravel’.
Grand Name Meaning and History
French and English (East Anglia): variant of Grant.
German: topographic name for someone who lived in a gravelly area, from Middle Low German grand ‘coarse gravel’.
German: nickname from a southern word of uncertain origin meaning ‘frustration’, ‘anger’, ‘ire’.
Danish: nickname from grand ‘pure’.
Family Motto: ‘Stand Fast’
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Grant Family Tartan
Surname References from:
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
Encyclopedia of Surnames, John Ayto, A & C Black Publishers Ltd, ISBN 978 0 7136 8144 4
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