Granger Family History
Granger Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): 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 ). French: from Old French grangier (see 1 above) an occupational name for an owner of a granary or a status name for a tenant farmer a sharecropper.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022