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grothaus Name Meaning and History

North German: topographic name for someone who lived in or by a large house or farmstead, from Low German grot(h) ‘large’, ‘great’ + central or standard German Haus ‘house’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of grothaus Families in the US in 1920
Number of grothaus families
 12-22
 5-11
 1-4
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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