I wonder why Edit: interesting, this seems to be mainly an English phenomenon, a lot of examples but they are all from other languages. The exception being Biggs, although I’ve never met a Biggs.
Interesting observation!
Gross, Langemann, Legrande?
Armstrong also.
Fun fact, in Danish, we call the middle finger langemand.
Yeah I did think of Armstrong, although that’s not quite rhe same thing. Still a pretty sweet last name though I feel like you kinda have to be some kind of craftsman with a name like that.
Or a wrestler
The last name Grant comes from French and means grand or big or giant.
So Hugh Grant is just a large large person?
As we know, Ariana Grande is 6’8" and has biceps like a regular man’s thighs.
Talk about nominative determinism
Yeah, but there is “Grossman”. In German “gross” or “groß” means big.
Also Dick, as in Philip K. Dick. In German Dick = thick = fat
Long?
Yes, Long meant tall in Old English and Old French.
Nonsense. There’s the famous John Bigbooté.
No matter where you go, there you are.
Maybe not in English? Plenty of people are named Groß in the German speaking world.
Yeah, I don’t think Groß (big) and Lang (long) are any less common than Klein (small) and Kurz (short)
Long, Large, Biggs, Tall are all English surnames
True, I did think of Long, although the etymology of that one isn’t always clear. For Irish people apparently “Long” is derived from the Gaelic word for seafarer.
Ariana
In my German region are many family names called „Lange“ „Langer“ „Langes“ which means tall guy.
Biggs is a surname
Last name Grande in spanish is “large”
‘Nagy’ (which is one syllable, and ‘gy’ means something like a voiced, wet ‘d’, like the mid section of your tongue against the roof of your mouth) is one of the most common Hungarian surnames. It means ‘big’. I have never heard of (the equivalent of) ‘Tall’, but ‘Long’ exists.
Tangentially related… nicknames for tall. I have always like “stretch”. And of course calling a big man tiny is just great.
I had a teacher with the surname “Sizemore”
the surname Homan is sometimes derived from old German “hoh mann” which is literally “tall man” (hoh is related to high)
