Oen Family History

Norwegian (Øen): habitational name from the farm name Øen found in several places. In Hornindal in Nordfjord and in Ål in Hallingdal it is from øy ‘meadow by water’ in Hyllestad in Sunnfjord from å ‘small river’ + Old Norse vin ‘meadow’ in other places from the definite singular form of øy ‘island’. Norwegian: habitational name from the farm name Oen in Hordaland from Old Norse Ó unexplained. Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 溫 (mainly found in Indonesia) possibly based on its Hokkien pronunciation see Wen