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greiner Name Meaning and History

  1. nickname for a cantankerous or quarrelsome person, from Middle High German griner ‘squabbler’, ‘quarreler’, an agent derivative of grin ‘loud cry’, ‘shout’.
  2. habitational name for someone from a place called Grein (see Grein 2).

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Distribution of greiner Families in the US in 1920
Number of greiner families
 87-171
 30-86
 1-29
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