Kenner Family History

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Kenner ‘connoisseur’ (from kennen ‘know’) hence a nickname for someone considered to be knowledgeable or an expert of some kind; it may also have been used ironically to denote a ‘know-all’.

German: habitational name for someone from Kenn near Trier. German: topographic name for someone living near a water pipe or channel from Middle High German kener ‘water channel’ ‘drainage pipe’.

English: perhaps a nickname from an unrecorded Middle English kenner ‘teacher’ attested in its plural forms kenners a derivative of kennen ‘to make known to teach’.