Jennings Family History
Jennings Name Meaning
English: patronymic from the Middle English personal name
Janyn, Jenyn, a pet form of John.German:
patronymic from a pet form of the personal name Johannes (see
John).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Jennings Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Jennings families
 498 - 994  167 - 497 |
 1 - 166  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Jennings families
|
1,373 - 2,743 458 - 1,372 |
1 - 457 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Jennings families
|
34 - 65 12 - 33 |
1 - 11 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Jennings Family Origin
Jennings Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Jennings
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Jennings Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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