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The griffin Surname

griffin Name Meaning and History

  1. Welsh: from a medieval Latinized form, Griffinus, of the Welsh personal name Gruffudd (see Griffith).
  2. English: nickname for a fierce or dangerous person, from Middle English griffin ‘gryphon’ (from Latin gryphus, Greek gryps, of Assyrian origin).
  3. Irish: Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Ó Gríobhtha ‘descendant of Gríobhtha’, a personal name from gríobh ‘gryphon’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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griffin Family Facts

Distribution of griffin Families in the US in 1920
Number of griffin families
 966-1929
 323-965		 1-322
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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