I wonder why Edit: interesting, this seems to be mainly an English phenomenon, a lot of examples but they are all from other languages. The exception being Biggs, although I've never met a Biggs.

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[–] 25 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Interesting observation!

Gross, Langemann, Legrande?

Armstrong also.

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  • [–] 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    The last name Grant comes from French and means grand or big or giant.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_(surname)

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, but there is “Grossman”. In German “gross” or “groß” means big.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Nonsense. There's the famous John Bigbooté.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    Maybe not in English? Plenty of people are named Groß in the German speaking world.

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    Biggs is a surname

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    the surname Homan is sometimes derived from old German "hoh mann" which is literally "tall man" (hoh is related to high)

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Last name Grande in spanish is "large"

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Long, Large, Biggs, Tall are all English surnames

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    The 10th most common surname in the Netherlands is de Groot, which means the Big.

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    'Nagy' (which is one syllable, and 'gy' means something like a voiced, wet 'd', like the mid section of your tongue against the roof of your mouth) is one of the most common Hungarian surnames. It means 'big'. I have never heard of (the equivalent of) 'Tall', but 'Long' exists.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Tangentially related... nicknames for tall. I have always like "stretch". And of course calling a big man tiny is just great.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I had a teacher with the surname "Sizemore"

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Høj (meaning tall) is a fairly common last name in Danmark.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Cel-Mare in Romania aka "the big one".

    Apologies if mistranslated. I'm not Romanian but I work with a lot of em and one of them has that last name as well as a candy bar there.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    I knew a guy with the last name of long.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    You must've not played many Final Fantasy's. Or watched a Star War.

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    The exception being Biggs, although I've never met a Biggs.

    1000004112

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  • There is the occasional Wide or Large.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    What about Fred Bigass?

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