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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Yorkshire) : habitational name from Penistone near Sheffield, South Yorkshire. The second element of the place name is Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; the first is uncertain; it may be Penning, an Old English combination of Celtic penn ‘hill’ + Old English -ing ‘place characterized by or belonging to’.

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