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shinn Name Meaning and History

English: metonymic occupational name for a Skinner, from Old English scinn, Middle English shin ‘hide’, ‘pelt’. In Middle English this word was replaced by the Norse equivalent, skinn.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of shinn Families in the US in 1920
Number of shinn families
 91-179
 31-90		 1-30
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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