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greene Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish: translation of Gaelic Ó hUainín ‘descendant of Uainín’ (see Honan 2).
  2. variant spelling of Green as an English name or as an Americanized form of name of similar meaning in some other European language.

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greene Family Facts

Distribution of greene Families in the US in 1920
Number of greene families
 761-1520
 254-760
 1-253
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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