as a First Name
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.
| 7,849th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,217
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Georgia
- has the most people named Penn per capita
- 2009
- marked the height of its popularity
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