Grad Family History
Grad Name Meaning
Slovenian: topographic name from grad ‘castle’.Possibly also a Slovenian and Polish nickname from the obsolete
noun grad ‘hail’ (in the sense ‘precipitation’).German: borrowing of 1 or alternatively a nickname either from
Middle High German gratac ‘greedy’ or, in the south, from
Middle High German gerade ‘swift’, ‘skillful’.Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German gerade
‘upright’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Grad Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Grad families
 20 - 37  7 - 19 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Grad families
|
8 - 13 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Grad last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Grad census records
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Grad Family Origin
Grad Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Grad
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Grad Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Grad census records
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Grad Civil War Service Records
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