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hunn Name Meaning and History

  1. English (mainly Norfolk): from an Old English personal name, Hun(n)a.
  2. English: from a nickname derived from Old Norse húnn ‘bear cub’.
  3. German: from the personal name Huno, a short form of a Germanic compound name formed with hun ‘Hun’, ‘giant’ or hun ‘bear cub’ as the first element.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of hunn Families in the US in 1920
Number of hunn families
 34-65
 12-33
 1-11
 0
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