Greenhill
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) person from a place called Greenhill; (ii) anglicization of German Griinberg or Jewish Grinberg, both meaning ‘green hill’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɡɹinˌhɪɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Greenhill is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 48K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 48K
- USUnited States1 in 165K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 278 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 48K (inferred from the name graph)
2,018 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
(i) person from a place called Greenhill; (ii) anglicization of German Griinberg or Jewish Grinberg, both meaning ‘green hill’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Greenhill counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,018 | 1 in 165K | 2K | Greenhill | 278 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Greenhill | 167 |
| AU Australia | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Greenhill | 85 |
| IT Italy | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 257K | — | Greenhill | 3 |
| CA Canada | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 199K | — | Greenhill | 52 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Greenhill | 24 |
| IE Ireland | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 167K | — | Greenhill | 1 |
2,018 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
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)
Greenhill is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from one of the small places called Greenhill or from residence near a green hill; first attested William de Grenehill' 1200 P (Beds).
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, A place in England:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- William Greenhillb. 1591GBEnglish clergyman
- John Greenhillb. 1644GBEnglish portrait painter (1644-1676)
- Thomas Greenhillb. 1669British surgeon
- William Alexander Greenhillb. 1814GBBritish doctor
- Alfred George Greenhillb. 1847GBBritish mathematician (1847–1927)
- Elizabeth Greenhillb. 1907FRdesigner, bookbinder, b. May 4, 1907, Paris; d. Dec. 30, 2006, London
- Joe R. Greenhillb. 1914USAmerican judge (1914-2011)
- Basil Greenhillb. 1920GBBritish historian and diplomat
- Gary Greenhillb. 1985GBScottish footballer (born 1985)
- Catherine Greenhillb. 2000AUAustralian mathematician
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)
Attested in 13 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2K | #14,724 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2K | #13,980 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #14,740 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Greenhill mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) person from a place called Greenhill; (ii) anglicization of German Griinberg or Jewish Grinberg, both meaning ‘green hill’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Greenhill?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɹinˌhɪɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Greenhill have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Greenhill, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled greenhill.
- How common is the name Greenhill?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,018 people named Greenhill in 2010, about 1 in 165 thousand residents.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Greenhill”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.