Browse Surnames

This is a list of surnames in which the meaning contains the keywords great or hall.
usage
meaning
De Groot Dutch
From Dutch groot meaning "big, great".
Grant English, Scottish
Derived from Norman French meaning "grand, tall, large, great". A famous bearer was the American general and president Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885).
Groos German
Variant of Groß.
Groot Dutch
Variant of De Groot.
Gross German
Variant of Groß.
Große German
Variant of Groß.
Grosse German
Variant of Groß.
Größel German
Variant of Groß, used in southern Germany.
Großel German
Variant of Groß, used in southern Germany.
Großer German
Variant of Groß.
Grosser German
Variant of Groß.
Hall English, German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish
Means simply "hall", given to one who either lived in or worked in a hall (the house of a medieval noble).
Halle German
German variant of Hall.
Megalos m Greek
Means "big, great" in Greek.
Nagy u & m Hungarian, Slovak
From a nickname meaning "big, great" in Hungarian, referring to one's characteristics. This is the most common Hungarian surname.
Ōshiro Japanese
From Japanese (ō) meaning "big, great" and (shiro) meaning "castle". It is especially common on Okinawa.
Sala Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Romanian
Occupational name for a worker at a manor house, from the Romance word sala meaning "hall, large room", of Germanic origin.
Sitko Polish
Means "fine sieve" in Polish, a diminutive of the Polish word sito "sieve".
Zaal Dutch
Means "hall" in Dutch.
Zeng Chinese
From Chinese (zēng) referring to the former state of Zeng, which existed during the Zhou dynasty in what is now Hubei province.