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The Grueneberg surname is relatively popular name of German origin. It often derived from Grüneberg, Grüneberger, Grünenberg or Grünberg. There are at least 2 towns , one in Germany another now Poland from which the name originated. There is a town Gruenberg in the State of Hesse in Germany, in Silesia there was a Gruenberg town famous for its wine, now called Zielona Gora in Poland.
The name translated into English means, Green Mountain. A popular Yiddish version of the the name is Grinberg or Grynberg. Very often the Americanized form of this name is Greenberg,
Examining the distribution of the name in Germany today using WWW.Verwandt.De shows a wide distribution of the name with some concentration around Hannover and Berlin.