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penn Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from various places, for example Penn in Buckinghamshire and Staffordshire, named with the Celtic element pen ‘hill’, which was apparently adopted in Old English.
  2. English: metonymic occupational name for an impounder of stray animals, from Middle English, Old English penn ‘(sheep) pen’.
  3. English: pet form of Parnell.
  4. German: from Sorbian pien ‘tree stump’, probably a nickname for a short stocky person.
  5. Americanized form of a like-sounding Jewish surname.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of penn Families in the US in 1920
Number of penn families
 117-232
 40-116		 1-39
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 409 - Messages: 1506
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Yes, William Penn Has Living Descendants Beverly_McClanahan 2
Penn Families - England and America Robert Harry Penn 192
Hiram Penn b.1877 Netherlands son of Jacob WClayton43 0
Sarah Penn and Randolph Slack jasperfamily 0
Penn(s) of Virginia BudMadison 1
William and Gottlieb Penn Dorothy Penn Brengosz 6
Penn Family plblocker1954 0
Will of William Penn, Found of Pennsylvania FrankHatton51 28
Ernest Penn desendents Loretta Frank 4
Peter P. Penn of Southern Dist. ,Patrick County , Virginia 1850 and Demaris L. Shelton Marie Reedy 2
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