Interesting observation!
Gross, Langemann, Legrande?
Armstrong also.
Interesting observation!
Gross, Langemann, Legrande?
Armstrong also.
The last name Grant comes from French and means grand or big or giant.
Yeah, but there is “Grossman”. In German “gross” or “groß” means big.
Nonsense. There's the famous John Bigbooté.
Maybe not in English? Plenty of people are named Groß in the German speaking world.
the surname Homan is sometimes derived from old German "hoh mann" which is literally "tall man" (hoh is related to high)
Long, Large, Biggs, Tall are all English surnames
The 10th most common surname in the Netherlands is de Groot, which means the Big.
'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.
Tangentially related... nicknames for tall. I have always like "stretch". And of course calling a big man tiny is just great.
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.
I knew a guy with the last name of long.
all 32 comments