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.
Cel-Mare in Romania aka “the big one”.
Apologies if mistranslated. I’m not Romanian but I work with a lot of em and one of them has that last name as well as a candy bar there.
‘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.
Ariana
In my German region are many family names called „Lange“ „Langer“ „Langes“ which means tall guy.
You must’ve not played many Final Fantasy’s. Or watched a Star War.
Høj (meaning tall) is a fairly common last name in Danmark.
Biggs is a surname
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)
The last name Grant comes from French and means grand or big or giant.
As we know, Ariana Grande is 6’8" and has biceps like a regular man’s thighs.
Talk about nominative determinism
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.
Long?
Yes, Long meant tall in Old English and Old French.
The 10th most common surname in the Netherlands is de Groot, which means the Big.
Yeah, but there is “Grossman”. In German “gross” or “groß” means big.
Also Dick, as in Philip K. Dick. In German Dick = thick = fat
