Greenhut
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Americanized form of the Ashkenazic Jewish surname Gru(e)nhut, a habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a green hat, from German griin ‘green’ -i- Hut ‘hat’ (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Greenhut is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 342 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Greenhut is also written גרינהוט in Hebrew.
- USUnited States1 in 973K(measured from records)
- ILIsrael1 in 74Kas גרינהוט
- BEBelgium1 in 617Kas Grunhut
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Greenhut itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 71 (measured from records)
- 1 in 973K (inferred from the name graph)
342 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Greenhut in other scripts: Latin and Hebrew
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Grunhut in US United States, GB United Kingdom, BE Belgium and 1 more, גרינהוט in IL Israel, AT Austria and Grünhut in CZ Czechia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Americanized form of the Ashkenazic Jewish surname Gru(e)nhut, a habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a green hat, from German griin ‘green’ -i- Hut ‘hat’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Greenhut is found
(measured from records)Greenhut 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 | 342 | 1 in 973K | 342 | Grunhut | 71 |
| IL Israel | 117as גרינהוט | 1 in 74K | 117 | גרינהוט | 19 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | listed | Grunhut | 28 |
| BE Belgium | 19as Grunhut | 1 in 617K | 19 | Grunhut | 7 |
| CA Canada | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | — | Grunhut | 7 |
| CZ Czechia | 12as Grünhut | 1 in 892K | 12 | Grünhut | 4 |
| AT Austria | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 995K | — | גרינהוט | 5 |
342 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling greenhut. 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; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Joseph B. Greenhutb. 1843CZAustrian-American military officer and merchant (1843–1918)
- Robert Greenhutb. 1942USAmerican film producer (born 1942)
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Greenhut mean, and where does it come from?
- Americanized form of the Ashkenazic Jewish surname Gru(e)nhut, a habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a green hat, from German griin ‘green’ -i- Hut ‘hat’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Greenhut?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 342 people named Greenhut, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled grunhut. After it come Israel, United Kingdom, Belgium and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Greenhut most common?
- Greenhut is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 973 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Greenhut?
- In the United States, the national register counted 342 people named Greenhut in 2010, about 1 in 973 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/greenhutThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Greenhut” — ranked 57985th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.