Gross Family History
Gross Name Meaning
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’. AB This name is
widespread throughout central and eastern Europe, not only in
German-speaking countries.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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Name Distribution of Gross Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gross families
 870 - 1,738  291 - 869 |
 1 - 290  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Gross families
|
100 - 198 34 - 99 |
1 - 33 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gross families
|
3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Gross Family Origin
Gross Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Gross
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Gross Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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