wer is the surname griffin from?

Question

my family r Irish but sum 1 told me its a welsh name

Answer 1

It's origin is Welsh.

Answer 2

GRIFFIN:
Welsh: from a medieval Latinized form, "Griffinus", of the Welsh personal name Gruffudd (see Griffith).
English: nickname for a fierce or dangerous person, from Middle English griffin ‘gryphon’ (from Latin gryphus, Greek gryps, of Assyrian origin).
Irish: Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Ó Griobhtha ‘descendant of Griobhtha’, a personal name from griobh ‘gryphon’.

Sounds like Wales, England, and Ireland. :)

Answer 3

This is what www.ancestry.com has to say about the name
Griffin
Welsh: from a medieval Latinized form, Griffinus, of the Welsh personal name Gruffudd (see Griffith).
English: nickname for a fierce or dangerous person, from Middle English griffin ‘gryphon’ (from Latin gryphus, Greek gryps, of Assyrian origin).
Irish: Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Ó Gríobhtha ‘descendant of Gríobhtha’, a personal name from gríobh ‘gryphon’.
hope this helps.

Answer 4

Don't pay attention to the name sites. They make their money from selling you things that make you think you're royalty. The reality is what it is. If your family was from Ireland (and a mighty large number of Griffiths were from Ireland), then it is what it is. Don't worry about others. If they haven't studied your family, then they don't have any place contradicting 20 generations of family history.

BTW, you're in good company. HSK's Mama tells a good story about how the name sites don't even put her heritage in the right country. The name sites try telling me that my family was Irish and the truth is that they were German Poles. But since I have the records to know better, I don't care what they try selling me. The truth is stranger than fiction.

Answer 5

Great Britain.

Answer 6

It is Welsh.