Penn Family History
Penn Name Meaning
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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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Penn
Name Distribution of Penn Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Penn families
 271 - 539  91 - 270 |
 1 - 90  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Penn families
|
10 - 18 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Penn Family Origin
Penn Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Penn Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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