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Penn

in Pennsylvania

There are 690 people with the last name "Penn" in Pennsylvania.

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Ranking in Pennsylvania

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Penn 1,752
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  1. is 1,748th most common Craft
  2. is 1,749th most common Crist
  3. is 1,750th most common Fazio
  4. is 1,751st most common Foor
  5. is 1,752nd most common Penn
  6. is 1,753rd most common Plank
  7. is 1,754th most common Witt
  8. is 1,755th most common Munoz
  9. is 1,756th most common Adkins

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Penn

William, David, Michael, Robert, Charles, Patricia, John, Thomas, Dot, James

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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