as a Last Name
- 7,482
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Greenwell
Meaning & Origins
English (Northumberland): topographic name for someone who lived by a stream among lush pastures, from Middle English grene ‘green’ + welle ‘spring’, ‘stream’, or habitational name from a minor place so named.
| 4,736th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 7,482
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Kentucky
- has the most people named Greenwell per capita
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