Grenier Family History
Grenier Name Meaning
French Canadian: altered form of French Garnier . Compare Greeney Greenia and Greenier . French: topographic name for someone who lived by a granary (from Latin granarium) or a metonymic occupational name for someone who supervised or owned one. Alternatively an occupational name for a grain merchant (from Latin granarius). English: variant of Grinyer a topographic name from Middle English gren(i)er ‘dweller by the (village) green’. Compare Green .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022