Greenfield Family History
Greenfield Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous minor places called Greenfield for example in Bedfordshire Lincolnshire Oxfordshire Sussex and Yorkshire from Old English grēne ‘green’ + feld ‘pasture open country’ (see Field ). English: habitational name from Green Field in Buckden (Yorkshire) recorded as Grenefel ‘green fell or mountain’ in 1190. English: variant of Granville . Americanized form (translation into English) of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Grünfeld (see Grunfeld ) its Jewish cognate Grinfeld and Dutch Groeneveld .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022