Greener: Surname History and Family Crest

Whether you spell it Greener or Greene, the story begins in the same place. Surname dictionaries give the meaning as “Dweller by the village green”.

• Before spelling was standardised, one family could appear under several forms.
• Before spelling was fixed, Greene was also written Greener.
• Greener ranked 20,139 in the 2010 US Census, with 1,326 people answering to the name. That is enough to place it in the top 25,000 American surnames.

Family crest and blazon

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Greener, so the heraldry linked to Greene is a starting point, not an automatic right. For the full story, order the Greener surname pack.