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grande Name Meaning and History

  1. Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese: nickname for someone of large stature, in either a literal or figurative sense, from grande ‘tall’, ‘large’.
  2. German: habitational name from Grande in Holstein or Grand in Bavaria.
  3. 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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The grande name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the grande family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of grande Families in the US in 1920
Number of grande families
 44-85
 15-43		 1-14
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 27 - Messages: 90
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Sigrid Elaine Grande Jamestown North Dakota actonyhill 0
Gilbert Bernard Grande BlueIwomen 4
NILS EDVARDSEN GRANDE, b. 1879. ahildrum 7
GRANDER-1 PA newspaper article Max57TBird 0
MARIA ABRUZZI RICCARDO A GRANDE 0
Elias Anton Edvardsen GRANDE, b. 29-03-1873; d. 08-1969. ahildrum 1
Guisseppe GRANDE bc1840 Palermo IT Doris Grande 30
Lewis Ferdinand Grande lindacollins37 1
Villavallelonga, Italy slp637 2
Maria GRANDE Cathy Ferguson 0
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