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Penn

in New Jersey

There are 444 people with the last name "Penn" in New Jersey.

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Ranking in New Jersey

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Penn 1,691
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  1. is 1,687th most common Digiacomo
  2. is 1,688th most common Emmons
  3. is 1,689th most common Griffiths
  4. is 1,690th most common Lawler
  5. is 1,691st most common Penn
  6. is 1,692nd most common Schulz
  7. is 1,693rd most common Waller
  8. is 1,694th most common Burger
  9. is 1,695th most common Decicco

Similar Names and Nicknames

Pennington, Penny, Penney, Pennell, Penner, Pennock, Penna, Pinney, Penning, Pennypacker

Most Common First Names for Penn

William, Michael, John, Robert, Brian, James, Jennifer, Lisa, Mary, Charles

Meaning & History

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 likesounding Jewish surname.

FOREBEARS The Commonwealth of PA was founded in 1681 by an English Quaker, William Penn (1644–1718), who was born in London into a family of Gloucestershire origin. His grandfather was a merchant and sea captain, and his father was an admiral on the Parliamentary side during the Civil War, who later served King Charles II after the Restoration. Because of his father's services to the crown, Penn the younger received a grant of a vast tract of land in North America, formerly part of New Netherland, which later became the state of PA.

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