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zinn Name Meaning and History

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a worker in pewter, Middle High German zin; German Zinn, Yiddish tsin.

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Distribution of zinn Families in the US in 1920
Number of zinn families
 89-175
 30-88
 1-29
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