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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of the various minor places in England named Greenhill, usually from Old English grēne ‘green’ + hyll ‘hill’. However, Greenhill in Worcestershire is probably named from Old English grīma ‘specter’, ‘goblin’ + hyll ‘hill’.
  • English translation of Ashkenazic Jewish Grünberg.

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