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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • English : Grand; superior

Family name origins & meanings

  • French and English (East Anglia) : variant of Grant.
  • German : topographic name for someone who lived in a gravelly area, from Middle Low German grand ‘coarse gravel’.
  • German : nickname from a southern word of uncertain origin meaning ‘frustration’, ‘anger’, ‘ire’.
  • Danish : nickname from grand ‘pure’.

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