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pine Name Meaning and History

  1. 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.
  2. German: variant spelling of Peine.

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pine Family Facts

Distribution of pine Families in the US in 1920
Number of pine families
 86-170
 29-85
 1-28
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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