Greninger
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Greninger
Frequency: (248)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Swiss German: of uncertain origin; perhaps from a personal name as assumed by A. Socin from the family name of Henricus Greninc, recorded in a Freiburg document of c.1200.
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