Family name origins & meanings
- Partly Americanized form of the Ashkenazic Jewish ornamental name Grünbaum, a compound of German grün ‘green’ + Baum ‘tree’.
- Partly Americanized form of German Grünbaum, from Middle High German grūene ‘green’ + boum ‘tree’, probably a habitational name from a house distinguished by the sign of a tree in leaf.