Meaning and Origin of: Griffin

Boy name origins & meanings

• English : A mythological beast—half lion, half eagle—charged with watching over golden treasures
• Latin : Hooked nose
• Welsh : Red, ruddy

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Family name origins & meanings

• Welsh : from a medieval Latinized form, Griffinus, of the Welsh personal name Gruffudd (see Griffith).
• English : nickname for a fierce or dangerous person, from Middle English griffin ‘gryphon’ (from Latin gryphus, Greekgryps, of Assyrian origin).
• Irish : Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Ó Gríobhtha ‘descendant ofGríobhtha’, a personal name from gríobh ‘gryphon’.

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