Griffin Family History
- Griffin Name Meaning
- Welsh: from a medieval Latinized form, Griffinus, of the Welsh personal name Gruffudd (see Griffith). English: nickname for a fierce or dangerous person, from Middle English griffin ‘gryphon’ (from Latin gryphus, Greek gryps, of Assyrian origin). Irish: Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Ó Gríobhtha ‘descendant of Gríobhtha’, a personal name from gríobh ‘gryphon’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 6,535,857 Historical Documents with Griffin on Ancestry
- 1,884,386 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,115,797 Census and Voter Lists
- 217,813 Military Records
- 119,292 Immigration Records
- 3,198,569 Member Trees
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Number of Griffin families
 1,066 - 2,129  356 - 1,065 |
 1 - 355  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Griffin families
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164 - 325 55 - 163 |
1 - 54 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Griffin census records
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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