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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for someone who lived by a grassy path, from Middle English grene ‘green’ + weye ‘path’ (see Way).
  • Welsh : Anglicized form of the Welsh personal name Goronwy, of unexplained origin.
  • Translation of Dutch Groeneweg or German Grüneweg, Gröneweg, topographic names with the same meaning as 1.

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