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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Senn.
  • German : habitational name from a place so named, for example near Bielefeld.
  • Dutch : from the Frisian personal name Senne.
  • French : from Old French senne ‘assembly’, ‘gathering’, or from the word in northern Middle French, which referred to a fine imposed on someone who worked on a Sunday, so this could be a nickname for someone who had had to pay such a fine.
  • French (Senné) : nickname for a wise person, from Old French sené ‘wise’, ‘sensible’.
  • Italian : variant (plural) of Senna 2.

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