Greenaway
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) person who lives by a grassy path; (ii) alteration of Welsh personal name Geronwy
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: St Kitts & Nevis, 2026
Greenaway is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- AUAustralia
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)(i) person who lives by a grassy path; (ii) alteration of Welsh personal name Geronwy.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Greenaway is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Kate, English illustrator
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Americanized form of Dutch Groeneweg.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Irish, This English locative name (dweller by the green way) has been in Ireland since mid-seventeenth century when Henry Greenaway, one of the Cromwellian commissioners, became a prominent settler in Co. Galway. It is now quite numerous in Ulster where Greenhay is a variant
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Kate Greenawayb. 1846GBBritish artist (1846-1901)
- David Greenawayb. 1886GBScottish footballer (1886-1946)
- Emerson Greenawayb. 1906USAmerican librarian (1906–1990)
- Frank Greenawayb. 1917GBBritish chemist and museum curator (1917-2013)
- Lorne Greenawayb. 1933CACanadian politician (1933-2010)
- Roger Greenawayb. 1938GBEnglish songwriter and record producer
- Peter Greenawayb. 1942GBWelsh film director (born 1942)
- David Greenawayb. 1952GBBritish economist
- Joseph A. Greenaway, Jr.b. 1957USUnited States federal judge
- Gavin Greenawayb. 1964GBBritish conductor and composer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #22,378 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #22,618 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 961 | #24,406 |
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 92 | #140 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 41 | #51,631 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 41 | #50,851 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 25 | #157 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 8 | #72,019 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | Antigua & Barbuda ABEC Voter Registration Roll (2026) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #113,198 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | Antigua & Barbuda ABEC Voter Registration Roll (2026) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Greenaway mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) person who lives by a grassy path; (ii) alteration of Welsh personal name Geronwy. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Greenaway have the most bearers?
- Greenaway is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
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Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Greenaway”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.