Last name: GRENIER

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GRENIER : This last name is indexed 632,647 times on Geneanet!

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GRENIER : 1: French Canadian: altered form of French Garnier. Compare Greeney Greenia and Greenier.2: French: topographic name for someone who lived by a granary (from Latin granarium) or a metonymic occupational name for someone who supervised or owned one. Alternatively an occupational name for a grain merchant (from Latin granarius).3: English: variant of Grinyer a topographic name from Middle English gren(i)er ‘dweller by the (village) green’. Compare Green.

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