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penner Name Meaning and History

  1. English: occupational name, a variant of Penn 1, with the agent suffix -er.
  2. North German (including Lower Rhineland): variant of Pfänner, from Pfann ‘pan’; according to Bahlow, a name denoting the owner of a salt-boiling pan.
  3. German: habitational name from Penna near Leipzig.
  4. Eastern German: in some cases a topographic name (of Salzburg emigrants) in East Prussia, equivalent of Baintner, Paintner (see Bainter), from Middle High German biunte ‘separate part of land or enclosure belonging to a village’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of penner Families in the US in 1920
Number of penner families
 51-99
 18-50		 1-17
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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