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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from a place named Annen, in the Ruhr valley.
  • North German : from the medieval German personal name Anno.
  • Swiss German : metronymic from the female personal name Anne.
  • Possibly an altered spelling of Scottish Annan.

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