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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Variant spelling of Finn 1, 2, and 4.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farms so named, from finn ‘matgrass (Nardus stricta)’ or finn ‘Lapp’ + vin ‘meadow’.
  • Danish : habitational name from various fields or places so named in Germany.
  • North German : nickname for a sponger or freeloader or for an ugly old woman, from Middle Low German vinne ‘pimple’, ‘blackhead’.

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