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greenwood Name Meaning and History

  1. English: topographic name for someone who lived in a dense forest, from Middle English grene ‘green’ + wode ‘wood’, or a habitational name from a minor place so named, as for example Greenwood in Heathfield, East Sussex.
  2. English translation of Ashkenazic Jewish Grünholz, an ornamental compound of German grün ‘green’ + Holz ‘wood’, and probably of German Grünwald (see Gruenwald).
  3. English translation of French Boisvert.

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greenwood Family Facts

Distribution of greenwood Families in the US in 1920
Number of greenwood families
 227-452
 76-226
 1-75
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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