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’.