Grose Last Name: Meaning and Heraldic Roots

It is easy to miss Grose in an index if you only search for Grosse. The family name meaning is “Big, tall”, the same as for Grosse. Grose drops the “s” of Grosse, a shortening that clerks often made. The same family of names includes Grosze and Grohse.

According to the 2010 US Census, the Grose surname had 5,285 bearers. It sits among the 10,000 most common last names in the country. Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: Gross.

There is no single Grose family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were. Want more than a summary? See the Grose family name pack.