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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : habitational name from any of various places (for example, in North Brabant, Gelderland, and South Holland) named Groenewoud, from Middle Dutch groene ‘green’ + woudt ‘wood’, ‘forest’

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