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grant Name Meaning and History

English and (especially) Scottish (of Norman origin), and French: nickname from Anglo-Norman French graund, graunt ‘tall’, ‘large’ (Old French grand, grant, from Latin grandis), given either to a person of remarkable size, or else in a relative way to distinguish two bearers of the same personal name, often representatives of different generations within the same family.
English and Scottish: from a medieval personal name, probably a survival into Middle English of the Old English byname Granta (see Grantham).
Probably a respelling of German Grandt or Grand.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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Distribution of grant Families in the US in 1920

Number of grant families

924-1845

309-923

1-308

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Thread	Author	Replies
GRANT Henry Andrew 1904 1906 son of C B and Allie N Grant	t42IOOF_DenCoTX	0
GRANT Cecil 1893 1960	t42IOOF_DenCoTX	0
GRANT Ruby LOFLAND 1916 1940	t42IOOF_DenCoTX	0
GRANT John T 1870 1926 father	t42IOOF_DenCoTX	0
GRANT Gertrude 1873 1921 mother	t42IOOF_DenCoTX	0
Duncan D Grant b: 1816 in Marlboro, SC	Melvin Humphrey	0
Nathan Grant, Connecticut or New York	smallison44	0
GRANT Fred M and Ouida G	t42Moore	0
GRANT Kathe H 1939-1972	t42Moore	0
GRANT Wayne C 1923 1963 Texas cpl US Marine Corps W W II	t42IOOF_DenCoTX	0

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