Penn

(male) Mainly U.S.: transferred use of the surname, for the most part originally a local name from any of various places named with the British element pen ‘hill’, which was adopted into Old English. In other cases it may have referred to someone who lived near a sheep pen (Old English penn). The given name is sometimes chosen in honour of the founder of Pennsylvania, the Quaker William Penn (1644–1718), who was born in London into a family of Gloucestershire origin.