Grange Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire) and French: topographic name or metonymic occupational name for someone who lived by or worked in a granary especially the farm manager from Middle English Old French grange (from Latin granica ‘granary barn’ from granum ‘grain’); or a French habitational name from any of the places called with this word for example in Ardèche and Jura. Redmonds points out that the English name was interchangeable with Granger . Compare French Degrange and Lagrange .
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
Similar surnames:
Granger, Gange, Range, Grande, Orange, Ranger, Prange, Grand, Grace
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts