"Green" is Jewish or Irish?

[nq:1]Is the surname Green Jewish or Irish in origin? Both?[/nq]
Better ask Giuseppe Verdi.

Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)

[nq:1]Is the surname Green Jewish or Irish in origin? Both?[/nq]
I'm guessing and it is only a guess that when Green (and often Greene) is a Jewish name, it's the result of an anglicization and contraction of Grun-something, or Greenberg or some such German/Polish/Russian name.

Don Phillipson filted:
[nq:2]Is the surname Green Jewish or Irish in origin? Both?[/nq]
[nq:1]Better ask Giuseppe Verdi.[/nq]
Wonder if that violinist Midori ever plays his stuff..r

[nq:2]Is the surname Green Jewish or Irish in origin? Both?[/nq]
[nq:1]I'm guessing and it is only a guess that when Green (and often Greene) is a Jewish name, it's the result of an anglicization and contraction of Grun-something, or Greenberg or some such German/Polish/Russian name.[/nq]
How 'bout Nathanael Greene? If he's Jewish, then I'm Latvian-Bavarian.

[nq:1]Don Phillipson filted:[/nq]
[nq:2]Better ask Giuseppe Verdi.[/nq]
[nq:1]Wonder if that violinist Midori ever plays his stuff..r[/nq]
She does. On the far side of the hill...

[nq:2]I'm guessing and it is only a guess ... contraction of Grun-something, or Greenberg or some such German/Polish/Russian name.[/nq]
[nq:1]How 'bout Nathanael Greene? If he's Jewish, then I'm Latvian-Bavarian.[/nq]
Key word in my post: when* I certainly didn't say or imply that Greene *is an exclusively Jewish name, but it is a common one.

I'd be surprised if the actor R

[nq:2]How 'bout Nathanael Greene? If he's Jewish, then I'm Latvian-Bavarian.[/nq]
[nq:1]Key word in my post: when* I certainly didn't say or imply that Greene *is an exclusively Jewish name, but it is a common one.[/nq]
Incidentally, I dare say there are plenty of Greens and Greenes living in Ireland, but I'm far from sure that it is a typical Irish surname.

[nq:1]Incidentally, I dare say there are plenty of Greens and Greenes living in Ireland, but I'm far from sure that it is a typical Irish surname.[/nq]
That's about right. In particular it is not a Gaelic name. It probably came in with the Normans or, more plausibly, their British successors.

PB
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[nq:1]Is the surname Green Jewish or Irish in origin? Both?[/nq]
English, usually. In the case of Jewish Greens or Greenes, it used to be fashionable for upwardly-mobile Jews to take an English surname. Also, it can be translated from another language. My great-grandfather Hilding Grön found that everybody in his new country pronounced his name "Green", so he changed it formally.

Chri

[nq:1]Is the surname Green Jewish or Irish in origin? Both?[/nq]
I doubt if it's Jewish in origin, unless it's a translation of something else. It's more English than Irish.
My wife's maiden name was Greene, but her great grandfather was born Green and died Greene. Apparently his eldest son fought with the family and changed his name by adding the extra letter. Then around the time