Greiner Family History
Greiner Name Meaning
nickname for a cantankerous or quarrelsome
person, from Middle High German griner ‘squabbler’,
‘quarreler’, an agent derivative of grin ‘loud cry’,
‘shout’.habitational name for someone from a place called Grein
(see Grein 2).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Greiner
Name Distribution of Greiner Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Greiner families
 87 - 171  30 - 86 |
 1 - 29  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Greiner families
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8 - 14 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Greiner families
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8 - 14 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Greiner census records
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Greiner Family Origin
Greiner Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Greiner
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Greiner Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Greiner census records
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Greiner Civil War Service Records
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