The penn Surname
penn Name Meaning and History
- English: habitational name from various places, for example Penn in Buckinghamshire and Staffordshire, named with the Celtic element pen ‘hill’, which was apparently adopted in Old English.
- English: metonymic occupational name for an impounder of stray animals, from Middle English, Old English penn ‘(sheep) pen’.
- English: pet form of Parnell.
- German: from Sorbian pien ‘tree stump’, probably a nickname for a short stocky person.
- Americanized form of a like-sounding Jewish surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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