English Explanatory Dictionary

Grennan

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Irish.

Word forms

Grennan Grennans

Etymology

* As an English surname of Norman origin, from Old French grenon (“mustache”), from Vulgar Latin *granonem (“facial hair, mustache”), from Frankish *granu, from Proto-Germanic *granō (“awn, beard-hair, hair-tips, mustache”). * As an Irish surname, variant of Greenan.

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