French and English: nickname from Old French grand,
grant ‘tall’, ‘large’ (occasionally used to denote seniority
rather than size), with the French definite article le. It was
taken to the U.S. also as Huguenot name.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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