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Grass

in Virginia

There are 55 people with the last name "Grass" in Virginia.

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Grass 10,568
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  1. is 10,564th most common Godette
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  3. is 10,566th most common Goncalves
  4. is 10,567th most common Goulet
  5. is 10,568th most common Grass
  6. is 10,569th most common Harshbarger
  7. is 10,570th most common Heintz
  8. is 10,571st most common Henrich
  9. is 10,572nd most common Herrman

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Grass

Edward, Gerald, Sara, Athena, Barbara, Gunnard, Judith, Pamela

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’.

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Edward Grass, VA (6 searches)
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