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Definition: The French cognate of the surnames GRANT and GRAND, from the Old French "graund" meaning great or large. Often used as a nickname for the person of remarkable size, or to distingish between two people with the same name (as in, the larger of the two).
Surname Origin:
French, Italian
Alternate Surname Spellings:
LE GRAND, GRAND (French), GRANDI, GRANDE, GRANDO, LO GRANDE (Spanish)
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French Genealogy LEGRAND Family Genealogy Forum FamilySearch - LEGRAND Genealogy LEGRAND Surname & Family Mailing List Surname Finder - LEGRAND Genealogy & Family Resources Cousin Connect - LEGRAND Genealogy Queries DistantCousin.com - LEGRAND Genealogy & Family History MyCinnamonToast.com - LEGRAND Genealogy in All Regions References: Surname Meanings & Origins Cottle, Basil. Penguin Dictionary of Surnames. Baltimore, MD: Penguin
Books, 1967. Dorward, David. Scottish
Surnames. Collins Celtic (Pocket edition), 1998. Fucilla, Joseph. Our Italian Surnames.
Genealogical Publishing Company, 2003. Smith, Elsdon C. American
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Hanks, Patrick and Flavia Hodges.
A Dictionary of Surnames. Great
Britain: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Reaney, P.H. A Dictionary of English Surnames. Oxford University
Press, 1997.
