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gross Name Meaning and History

  1. 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.
  2. 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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Distribution of gross Families in the US in 1920
Number of gross families
 870-1738
 291-869		 1-290
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Gross from Tarnow, Poland devadog 2
Dr. James H Gross scifiguy242001 0
Gross Jacob Malenroh 1
William Henry Gross speiffer58 2
Gross GER>PA>NC>TN>AL bayle_r 16
Marton Gross Lori Morgan 2
german? patricklgross 1
Gross family of Wisconsin Melissa 10
Gross from New York ErycF 0
GROSS OF IN/KY DANA GROSS 1
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