Type Surname
Usage English
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Type Surname (from location)
Usage English, German (Americanized)
Other Forms FormsGrünfeld (German), Greenfeild, Greenville, Greenvile
Meaning & History
habitational name either from any of numerous minor places called Greenfield, for example in Bedfordshire, Lincolnshire, Oxfordshire, Sussex, and Yorkshire, from Old English grene "green" and feld "pasture, open country". Or from Green Field in Buckden (Yorkshire), recorded as Grenefel "green fell or mountain" in 1190. Americanized form and cognate of Grünfeld.