The Greenwald surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 6,664 people carried this name — #5,234 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 44,200 people counted. That is up 6% from 6,316 in 2000.

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In print

Greenwald in American newspapers,
1900–1915.

Newspaper page from Akron Daily Democrat carrying the name Greenwald
Akron Daily Democrat 1900-11-24
Newspaper page from The Day Book carrying the name Greenwald
The Day Book 1912-11-21
Newspaper page from The Citizen carrying the name Greenwald
The Citizen 1915-07-23

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 21,596 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Greenwald in Australian newspapers,
1880s–1980s.

299 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Greenwald. The most, 63, date from the 1930s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in New South Wales, at 1.9 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

New South Wales 185
Victoria 61
South Australia 23
Queensland 8
Western Australia 7
Tasmania 4
ACT (Canberra) 2

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Greenwald.

Who carried it

People named Greenwald,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Leopold Greenwald
    Leopold Greenwald 1888–1955 · writer
  • Leopold Greenwald
    Leopold Greenwald 1888–1955 · writer
  • Karl Greenwald
    Karl Greenwald 1888–1986 · military officer
  • Harold Greenwald 1910–1999 · writer
  • Douglas Greenwald 1914–1997 · economist
  • Joseph A. Greenwald 1918–2000

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Greenwald,
in the records of 3 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States2,041 records

2,041 records of the Greenwald name in the United States
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 1,229
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 342
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 262
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 108
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 75
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 20
  • Sacramento County historic burials 3
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 2
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Elmer P. Greenwald

    Born 1919 in Illinois. Enlisted 1942 at Chicago; metal worker from Cook County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1986, buried at Central Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery, King, Wisconsin.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Mari Greenwald

    Arrived at New York in 1888 aboard the City of Berlin from Liverpool and Queenstown, aged 16; laborer. From Hamburg, Germany; bound for New York.

    U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)
  3. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Ronald Albert Greenwald

    Born 1944; from Mt Vernon, Washington. U.S. Army, indirect fire infantryman; killed in action 1968 in Thua Thien, South Vietnam.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)

Showing 3 of 2,041 records for Greenwald in the United States.

Counts: NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · Sacramento County, Historic Burials (CC BY 4.0) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain).

Canada1 record

1 record of the Greenwald name in Canada City of Calgary cemetery records
  1. Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia
    Example: Canadian cemetery
    Burial record Herman Greenwald

    Buried in 1959 at St. Mary's Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta.

    City of Calgary. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Calgary.

Counts: City of Calgary. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Calgary. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax, photo by Edgar El (CC BY 3.0).

France1 record

1 record of the Greenwald name in France France's national death register, 1970–2001
  1. A page of the death register of Nice, 1930
    Example: French death register, 1930
    Death record David Hyman Jean Greenwald

    Born 1974 in Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis); died 1993 in the United States.

    Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte)

Counts: Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Death register of Nice, 1930, Archives départementales des Alpes-Maritimes (public domain).

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