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Grass

in Illinois

There are 131 people with the last name "Grass" in Illinois.

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Grass 8,656
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  1. is 8,652nd most common Fakhoury
  2. is 8,653rd most common Freer
  3. is 8,654th most common Fusco
  4. is 8,655th most common Grana
  5. is 8,656th most common Grass
  6. is 8,657th most common Grieco
  7. is 8,658th most common Gunning
  8. is 8,659th most common Harre
  9. is 8,660th most common Hassell

Similar Names and Nicknames

Gross, Grasso, Grose, Grassi, Gress, Grosso, Grossi, Grasty, Gros, Grosse

Most Common First Names for Grass

Robert, Linda, Charles, David, James, Laura, Patricia, Alvina, Barbara, Doris

Meaning & History

English and German: topographic name for someone who owned or lived by a meadow, or a metonymic occupational name for someone who made or sold hay, from Middle English gras, Middle High German gras ‘grass’, ‘pasture’, ‘grazing’.

English: nickname for a stout man, from Anglo-Norman French gras ‘fat’, from Latin crassus (which was itself used as a Roman family name), with the initial changed under the influence of grossus (see Gross).

Scottish: occupational name, reduced from Gaelic greusaiche ‘shoemaker’. A certain John Grasse alias Cordonar (Middle English cordewaner ‘shoemaker’) is recorded in Scotland in 1539.

South German: nickname for an irascible man, from Middle High German graz ‘intense’, ‘angry’.

Recent Searches for "Grass" in Illinois

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Robert Grass, IL (7 searches)
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