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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized form of the Ashkenazic Jewish ornamental surname Grünspan, from German Grünspan ‘verdigris’ (Middle High German gruenspān, which is a calque of medieval Latin viride hispanicum ‘Spanish green’).

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