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ginn Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish: reduced form of McGinn, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag Finn ‘son of Fionn’.
  2. English: from Middle English gin ‘trick’, ‘contrivance’, ‘snare’, a reduced form of Middle English engin (see Ingham 2), hence a metonymic occupational name for a trapper or a nickname for a cunning person.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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ginn Family Facts

Distribution of ginn Families in the US in 1920
Number of ginn families
 39-76
 14-38		 1-13
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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