For an integer \(m\ge 2\) , we aim to investigate the realizability of types of metacyclic-nonmodular groups, whose abelianization is \(\mathbb {Z}/2 \mathbb {Z}\times \mathbb {Z}/2^m \mathbb {Z}\) , as the Galois group of the maximal unramified 2-extension (resp. pro-2-extension) over certain number fields of 2-power degree (resp. cyclotomic \(\mathbb {Z}_2\) -extensions). Furthermore, we present some new techniques for studying Greenberg’s conjecture for some number fields. In particular, the reader can find results concerning the real quadratic fields \(F=\mathbb {Q}(\sqrt{\eta q rs})\) , the real biquadratic fields \(K=\mathbb {Q}(\sqrt{\eta q},\sqrt{rs})\) , with \(\eta \in \{1,2\}\) , and the Fröhlich multiquadratic fields of the form \(\mathbb {F}=\mathbb {Q}(\sqrt{q }, \sqrt{r}, \sqrt{s})\) , where q, r and s are odd prime numbers.