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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of various minor places, for example in Staffordshire, so named from Old English grēne ‘green’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
  • Altered spelling of German Grindler, a variant of Grindel (see Grindle).

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