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.