as a Last Name
- 8,297
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Greiner
Meaning & Origins
South German: 1. nickname for a cantankerous or quarrelsome person, from Middle High German grīner ‘squabbler’, ‘quarreler’, an agent derivative of grīn ‘loud cry’, ‘shout’. 2. habitational name for someone from a place called Grein (see Grein 2).
| 3,705th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 8,297
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Iowa
- has the most people named Greiner per capita
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