Greenville is used as a family name or surname in Ireland, England. It is 10 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Greenville
No. of characters: 10
Origin: Ireland, England
Meaning:

The variant form of Greenfield. A Lincolnshire hamlet. Also a corruption of Grenville or Granville.

Greenville is a form of Granville. See Grenville - The Grenvilles of Wootton, county of Bucks, descend from Richard de Grenville, who came in with the Conqueror in the train of Walter Giffard, earl of Longueville and Buckingham, whose son in law he was. The name, which has been variously written, Greynevile, Greinville, Granville, etc., and latinized De Granavilla, was doubtless borrowed from Granville, the well-known seaport of Lower Normandy. The Grenvilles of the West are of the same stock. George G. of Stowe, in Cornwall, the poetical Lord Lansdowne, writing in 1711 to his nephew, Wm. Henry, Earl of Bath, says: "Your ancestors for at least five hundred years never made any alliances, male or female, out of the western counties: thus there is hardly a gentleman either in Cornwall or Devon, but has some of your blood, as you of theirs." Quart. The G.'s of the Buckinghamshire Stowe could boast of a still longer territorial stability.

The more correct form of the name is Granville, the spelling now and anciently used for the town. George Grenville, in his letter to his kinsman Charles, Lord Lansdowne, on the bombardment of the town of Granville, in Normandy, by the English fleet, alludes to the arms of Gran ville as till then preserved over one of the gates of that town:-
"Those arms which for nine centuries (?) have braved
The wrath of time, on antique stone engraved,
Now torn by mortars, stand yet undefaced
On nobler trophies, by thy valour raised.
Safe on thy eagle's wingsthey soar above
The rage of war or thunder to remove;
Borne by the bird of Cæsar and of Jove."

The allusion here is to his lordship's creation as a Count of the Empire, the family arms to be thenceforth borne on the breast of the imperial eagle. It seems singular that the noble family should have tolerated the spelling Grenville, though Clarendon goes even further, and writes Greenvil, passim. A still grosser corruption brings the great town (grande ville) to the level of a Green-field. There is, however, a locality in Normandy which appears really to have experienced this metamorphosis, for of another Granville there runs a proverb:-
"Granville grand villain!
Une égliseet un moulin,
On voit Granville tout à plein."

Greenville is the variant of the Greenfield. Dweller at the verdant field or pasture.

Greenville is the variant form of Greenfield. Green field.

Greenville is a variant form of Grenville. The Grenvilles of Wootton, county of Bucks, descend from Richard de Grenville, who came in with the Conqueror in the train of Walter Giffard, earl of Longueville and Buckingham, whose son in law he was. The name, which has been variously written, Greynevile, Greinville, Granville, etc., and latinized De Granavilla, was doubtless borrowed from Granville, the well-known seaport of Lower Normandy. The Grenvilles of the West are of the same stock. George G. of Stowe, in Cornwall, the poetical Lord Lansdowne, writing in 1711 to his nephew, Wm. Henry, Earl of Bath, says: "Your ancestors for at least five hundred years never made any alliances, male or female, out of the western counties: thus there is hardly a gentleman either in Cornwall or Devon, but has some of your blood, as you of theirs." Quart. The G.'s of the Buckinghamshire Stowe could boast of a still longer territorial stability.

The more correct form of the name is Granville, the spelling now and anciently used for the town. George Grenville, in his letter to his kinsman Charles, Lord Lansdowne, on the bombardment of the town of Granville, in Normandy, by the English fleet, alludes to the arms of Gran ville as till then preserved over one of the gates of that town:-
"Those arms which for nine centuries (?) have braved
The wrath of time, on antique stone engraved,
Now torn by mortars, stand yet undefaced
On nobler trophies, by thy valour raised.
Safe on thy eagle's wingsthey soar above
The rage of war or thunder to remove;
Borne by the bird of Cæsar and of Jove."

The allusion here is to his lordship's creation as a Count of the Empire, the family arms to be thenceforth borne on the breast of the imperial eagle. It seems singular that the noble family should have tolerated the spelling Grenville, though Clarendon goes even further, and writes Greenvil, passim. A still grosser corruption brings the great town (grande ville) to the level of a Green-field. There is, however, a locality in Normandy which appears really to have experienced this metamorphosis, for of another Granville there runs a proverb:-
"Granville grand villain!
Une égliseet un moulin,
On voit Granville tout à plein."

How popular is Greenville?

Greenville is common in United States.

Greenville is ranked 1063450 on our list.

The last name was found in merely 4 per ten million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 90.09 90.99
Black 6.31 0
Greenville is an uncommon family name, few people in United States and Fiji have the last name. Around 234 people have been found who wears Greenville as their family name. Greenville have bearers in many countries around the world. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with hundreds of Greenville:
122,647 United States192
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
24,643 New Zealand16
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 6 - 10:
75,466 Israel6

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