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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Swiss German (Grünwald) : habitational name from any of various places named Grün(e)wald, from Middle High German grūene ‘green’ + walt ‘wood’, ‘forest’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental surname, with the same meaning as 1.

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