Grote Family History
Grote Name Meaning
North German: nickname for a large man from Low German grot(h) ‘large corpulent’. Compare Gross and Groth . Dutch: variant of Groot a cognate of 1 above. English: nickname from Middle English grot ‘groat a denomination of coin’ from Middle Dutch groot ‘great’ being an elliptical use of the adjective i.e. ‘thick (coin)’. In English use from the 14th to 17th centuries a groat was a silver coin equivalent to four pence. English: nickname from Middle English grot ‘fragment speck trifle tiny thing’ (Old English grot grota). English: topographic name perhaps from Middle English grot grut (Old English grēot) ‘gravel’ or a habitational name from a place called from this such as Gourt in Molland (Devon).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022