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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Hennor in Herefordshire or Heanor in Derbyshire, named in Old English with hēan (dative cases of hēah ‘high’) + ofer ‘ridge’.
  • German : patronymic from Henne 1 and 3 or a variant of Henne 2.
  • German : habitational name from Hänner in Säckingen, Henne in Saxony, or Hennen in Westphalia.

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