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pins Name Meaning and History

  1. Possibly an altered spelling of southern German and Austrian Pinz, from a pet form of the personal name Berchtold (see Berthold).
  2. Dutch: from Middle Dutch pin(ne) ‘wooden peg or pin’, ‘iron pin or point’, hence presumably a metonymic occupational name for someone who made or used such items.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of pins Families in the US in 1920
Number of pins families
 7-12
 3-6
 1-2
 0
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