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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,194,053 Historical Documents with Penn on Ancestry
- 329,750 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 153,546 Census and Voter Lists
- 44,779 Military Records
- 17,697 Immigration Records
- 648,281 Member Trees
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Number of Penn families
 271 - 539  91 - 270 |
 1 - 90  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Penn families
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10 - 18 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Penn census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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