Penno Family History
Penno Name Meaning
O. J. Padel suggests it may be a hypocoristic form (with the Cornish suffix -ow) of a name in Pen- such as Pentec ‘fair head’ (Cornish pen ‘head’ + tec ‘fine fair’) attested in Roger Richard and William Pentec about 1230-5 in
Source: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain, 2021