The Grot Family Name

Grot? Think of it as Groth with a different pen. Surname dictionaries give the meaning as “A Low German name for a big man”.

Family crest and blazon

Arms linked to Groth and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

A variant of Groth

Without the “h” of Groth, Grot is a simpler written form of the same name. The same family of names includes Grodt, Grote and Groot.

French civil records give 367 births under the name Grot from 1891 to 2000, peaking in 1961–1970. The name became more frequent over the century. Want more than a summary? See the Grot family name pack.