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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Cornish : topographic name for someone who lived near a stone cross set up by the roadside or in a marketplace, Cornish crous (Latin crux, crucis). Compare Cross.
  • English : nickname for a large or fat man, from Old French gros, ‘big’, ‘fat’ (see Gros).

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