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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized form of the Ashkenazic Jewish surname Gru(e)nhut, a habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a green hat, from German grün ‘green’ + Hut ‘hat’.

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