Greenhill Family History
Greenhill Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various minor places in England named Greenhill usually from Old English grēne ‘green’ + hyll ‘hill’. However Greenhill in Worcestershire is probably named from Old English grīma ‘specter goblin’ + hyll ‘hill’. The name may also have been a topographic name for one who lived ‘(by the) green hill’. Compare Grinnell . Americanized form (translation into English) of German or Jewish Grünberg (see Grunberg ).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022