Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese: nickname for someone of large
stature, in either a literal or figurative sense, from grande
‘tall’, ‘large’.German: habitational name from Grande in
Holstein or Grand in Bavaria.Norwegian: habitational name
from any of several farmsteads so named, from Old Norse grandi
‘sandbank’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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