Kenner Family History
Kenner Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Kenner
‘connoisseur’ (from kennen ‘know’), hence a nickname for
someone considered to be knowledgeable or an expert of some kind; it
may also have been used ironically to denote a ‘know-all’.German: habitational name for someone from Kenn, near
Trier.German: topographic name for someone living near a water
pipe or channel, from Middle High German kener ‘water channel’,
‘drainage pipe’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Kenner Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Kenner families
 30 - 57  11 - 29 |
 1 - 10  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Kenner families
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29 - 55 10 - 28 |
1 - 9 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Kenner families
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3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Kenner Family Origin
Kenner Immigration Information
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Kenner Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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