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’. 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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 2,209,929 Historical Documents with Gross on Ancestry
- 1,029,790 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 333,748 Census and Voter Lists
- 116,872 Military Records
- 77,295 Immigration Records
- 652,224 Member Trees
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Number of Gross families
 100 - 198  34 - 99 |
 1 - 33  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gross families
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3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Gross census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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