Penner Family History
Penner Name Meaning
English: occupational name, a variant of Penn 1, with the agent suffix -er.North German (including Lower Rhineland): variant of Pfänner, from Pfann ‘pan’; according to Bahlow, a name denoting the owner of a salt-boiling pan.German: habitational name from Penna near Leipzig.Eastern German: in some cases a topographic name (of Salzburg emigrants) in East Prussia, equivalent of Baintner, Paintner (see Bainter), from Middle High German biunte ‘separate part of land or enclosure belonging to a village’.
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Name Distribution of Penner Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Penner families
 51 - 99  18 - 50 |
 1 - 17  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Penner families
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16 - 30 6 - 15 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Penner Family Origin
Penner Immigration Information
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Penner Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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