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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : ethnic name for a Finn (see Finn 3) or a topographic name, from an agent derivative of Old High German fenni, Middle Low German and Old Frisian fenne ‘bog’ (see Fenn).
  • English : possibly a variant of Fenner.

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