English: topographic name from Middle English grene
‘green’ + dale ‘dale’, ‘valley’ or hille, hull
‘hill’; alternatively, the surname may have arisen from either of two
habitational names meaning ‘green valley’: Greendale in Devon or
Grindale in East Yorkshire, or from Grindal (‘green hill’) in
Shropshire.South German: from Middle High German
grindel ‘latch’, ‘beam’, ‘pole’, probably a metonymic
occupational name for a doorman.Respelling of North German
Grindel.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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