Family name origins & meanings
- English : topographic name for someone who lived by a grassy path, from Middle English grene ‘green’ + weye ‘path’ (see Way).
- Welsh : Anglicized form of the Welsh personal name Goronwy, of unexplained origin.
- Translation of Dutch Groeneweg or German Grüneweg, Gröneweg, topographic names with the same meaning as 1.