English and French: from Middle English pine, Old French
pin, a topographic name for someone who lived by a conspicuous
pine tree or in a pine forest. It may also be a Norman habitational
name from any of various places named with this word, such as Le Pin
in Calvados; in other cases it may originally have been a nickname for
a tall man, one thought to resemble a pine tree.
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