Greén

surname · Latin script

Greén is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 42nd most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Middle English grene, from Old English grēne, from Proto-West Germanic *grōnī, from Proto-Germanic *grōniz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow”). More at grow.

rarermore common
  • JMJamaica≈1 in 454(inferred from the name graph)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 548
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 696

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)

430,182 people, 2010

#208 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

Sources
635 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 454 (inferred from the name graph)

Jamaica, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Green in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 6 more.

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)

Derivation of Greén: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Greén
  1. Middle Englishgrene(measured from records)
  2. Old Englishgrēne(measured from records)
  3. Proto-West Germanic*grōnī(measured from records)
  4. Proto-Germanic*grōniz(measured from records)
  5. Proto-Indo-European*gʰreh₁-“to grow”(measured from records)

From Middle English grene, from Old English grēne, from Proto-West Germanic *grōnī, from Proto-Germanic *grōniz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow”). More at grow. See also North Frisian green, West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, Low German grön, green, greun, German grün, Danish and Norwegian Nynorsk grøn, Swedish grön, Norwegian Bokmål grønn, Icelandic grænn.

Sources 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Greén 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.

Where Greén is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#42430,1821 in 773430KGreen635
GB United Kingdom#26≈120,000 est.≈1 in 548—Green402
EG Egypt#823≈45,000 est.≈1 in 2.3K—Green40
CA Canada#42≈40,000 est.≈1 in 949—Green301
IT Italy#52≈37,000 est.≈1 in 1.7KlistedGreen84
AU Australia#36≈37,000 est.≈1 in 696—Green276
NZ New Zealand#41≈7,000 est.≈1 in 703—Green160
JM Jamaica#11≈6,200 est.≈1 in 454—Green36
IS Iceland#96≈460 est.≈1 in 765listedGreen26

430,182 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Greén is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, United Kingdom, Malaysia

    Also written Green, Gréén, Grèén, Grëën, Gręęn

  • Hindi surname19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Sinhala

    Also written Green, Girin, গ্রীন, Gren, Grin

  • a separate surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

    Also written Green, Gréen, Gréén, Greeň, Grèęn

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Greén under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Greén mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English grene, from Old English grēne, from Proto-West Germanic *grōnī, from Proto-Germanic *grōniz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow”). More at grow. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
In which country does Greén have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 430 thousand people named Greén, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled green.
How common is the name Greén?
In the United States, the national register counted 430,182 people named Greén in 2010, about 1 in 773 residents.
How common is Greén compared with other names?
In the United States, Greén is the 42nd most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Greén” — the 42nd most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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