Gross Family History
Gross Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a big man, from
Middle High German groz ‘large’, ‘thick’, ‘corpulent’,
German gross. The Jewish name has been Hebraicized as
Gadol, from Hebrew gadol ‘large’. AB This name is
widespread throughout central and eastern Europe, not only in
German-speaking countries.English: nickname for a big man, from
Middle English, Old French gros (Late Latin grossus, of
Germanic origin, thus etymologically the same word as in 1 above).
The English vocabulary word did not develop the sense ‘excessively
fat’ until the 16th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Gross
Name Distribution of Gross Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gross families
 100 - 198  34 - 99 |
 1 - 33  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gross families
|
3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Gross Family Origin
Gross Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Gross Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Gross census records
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