Penna Family History
- Penna Name Meaning
- Cornish: of uncertain origin; perhaps a habitational name from any of the places named Penare or Penarth, from Cornish pen-arth ‘promontory’, ‘headland’. Italian (mainly southern): probably a topographic name for someone who lived on a hill or peak, or generally in an elevated location, penna (from Latin pinnus ‘pointed’), a common element of place names. Greek: from the Greek vocabulary word penna ‘quill’, ‘pen’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a clerk or scribe (Greek Pennas, with the occupational suffix -as).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 83,946 Historical Documents with Penna on Ancestry
- 33,017 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 11,455 Census and Voter Lists
- 7,763 Military Records
- 5,080 Immigration Records
- 26,631 Member Trees
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Number of Penna families
 28 - 53  10 - 27 |
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Penna families
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79 - 155 27 - 78 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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