Greenhouse Family History
Greenhouse Name Meaning
Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh Gronow with English genitival -s from the Welsh personal name Goronwy (also found as Gronw and Gronow from Old Welsh Guorgonui). English: in Lancashire perhaps a variant of Greenhow with post-medieval excrescent -s. English: alternatively a topographic name for someone who lived in a house by a village green from Middle English grene ‘green’ + hous ‘house’. (The term greenhouse was not used to denote a glasshouse for the cultivation of ‘greens’ or sensitive plants until the late 17th century.) Jewish (American): translation into English of Ashkenazic Grünhaus an oramental name composed of German grün ‘green’ + Haus ‘house’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
