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penna Name Meaning and History

  1. Cornish: of uncertain origin; perhaps a habitational name from any of the places named Penare or Penarth, from Cornish pen-arth ‘promontory’, ‘headland’.
  2. Italian (mainly southern): probably a topographic name for someone who lived on a hill or peak, or generally in an elevated location, penna (from Latin pinnus ‘pointed’), a common element of place names.
  3. Greek: from the Greek vocabulary word penna ‘quill’, ‘pen’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a clerk or scribe (Greek Pennas, with the occupational suffix -as).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of penna Families in the US in 1920
Number of penna families
 28-53
 10-27		 1-9
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