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grant Name Meaning and History

  1. 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.
  2. English and Scottish: from a medieval personal name, probably a survival into Middle English of the Old English byname Granta (see Grantham).
  3. Probably a respelling of German Grandt or Grand.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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grant Family Facts

Distribution of grant Families in the US in 1920
Number of grant families
 924-1845
 309-923		 1-308
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