Family name origins & meanings
- Altered form of French Gorenflo, a habitational name from a village named Gorenflos between Abbeville and Amiens, France.
- Georg Adam Goranflo arrived at Philadelphia on the ship Ann in 1749 and settled in Hagerstown, MD, the name being changed to Colliflower in the process. His forebear Jacques de Gorenflo was a leading Huguenot in the 17th century. Religious persecution drove the family to Germany, from where Georg Adam Goranflo emigrated to North America.