Given name & surname

Grendel

Grendel is a masculine given name from Old English.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Grendel comes from Old English.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Old English Grendel.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Grendel’s family of names

Grendel may belong to the same name family as GRENDELL. This is a tentative spelling connection.

Walk Grendel’s family in the name graph

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The ring: nicknames and forms.

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Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Similar names

If you love Grendel, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Old English

Greenhalgh

“green”

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Old English

Greenham

“green”

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Old English

Gresley

“gravel”

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Old English

Greenlaw

“green”

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Old English

Grindley

“green”

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Middle English

Gosnell

“goose”

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Old English

Greaves

“brushwood, thicket”

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Old English

Haswell

“hazel”

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Sibling ideas

Names that share Grendel’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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