Penna Family History
Penna Name Meaning
Cornish: of uncertain origin; perhaps a habitational name from
any of the places named Penare or Penarth, from Cornish
pen-arth ‘promontory’, ‘headland’.Italian (mainly
southern): probably a topographic name for someone who lived on a hill
or peak, or generally in an elevated location, penna (from
Latin pinnus ‘pointed’), a common element of place names.Greek: from the Greek vocabulary word penna ‘quill’,
‘pen’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a clerk or scribe
(Greek Pennas, with the occupational suffix -as).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Penna
Name Distribution of Penna Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Penna families
 79 - 155  27 - 78 |
 1 - 26  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Penna census records
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Penna Family Origin
Penna Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Penna Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Penna census records
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Military Service by Penna
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