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Boy name origins & meanings
- French : Farm steward
How Popular Is The Name Granger
Family name origins & meanings
- English and French : occupational name for a farm bailiff, responsible for overseeing the collection of rent in kind into the barns and storehouses of the lord of the manor. This official had the Anglo-Norman French title grainger, Old French grangier, from Late Latin granicarius, a derivative of granica ‘granary’ (see Grange).