Penn

penn penn- English Etymology As an English surname, named after various places such as Penn in Buckinghamshire or Staffordshire, of en cel-bry - origin, from en cel-bry-pro *penn (hill) top, head. Also as an English surname, from the noun en pen enclosure. Also as an English surname, spelling variant of en Parnell. As a en de - surname, from en wen - dsb pien tree stump, from en sla-pro *pьňь. Pronunciation en /pɛn/? en ɛn 1 Proper noun en. en place cc/England: en village/and/cpar in co/Buckinghamshire previously in dist/Chiltern OS grid ref SP9094. Parish map (Buckinghamshire) en 1980 AA Book of British Villages Drive Publications Ltd 312 High on a ridge of the Chilterns stands the village from which a celebrated Buckinghamshire family took its name. It was the home of the ancestors, and some of the descendants, of William Penn, the Quaker who in 1682 founded Pennsylvania in America. en hamlet par/Wootton Fitzpaine west co/Dorset OS grid ref SY3495. List of United Kingdom locations: Pe-Pen#Penn en western suburb city/Wolverhampton co/West Midlands OS grid ref SO8996. Ward map (Wolverhampton) en place c/USA: en ucomm co/Ramsey County s/North Dakota. en ucomm co/Lane County s/Oregon. en bor in co/Westmoreland County s/Pennsylvania, named after William Penn. en A number of <<townships>> in the United States, including in <<s/Illinois>> (2), <<s/Indiana>> (3), <<s/Iowa>> (4), <<s/Michigan>>, <<s/Minnesota>>, <<s/Missouri>>, <<s/Ohio>> (2), and <<s/Pennsylvania>> (12), listed under Penn Township. en informal University of Pennsylvania en UPenn en-US Gail Collins Only 1,370 Days to Go The New York Times 2025-04-21 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/opinion/trump-powell-ocasio-cortez-birthright.html 0362-4331 Bret Stephens Well, he [Donald J. Trump] did go to Penn. Whether he got in on merit is a whole other question. https://web.archive.org/web/20251104093104/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/opinion/trump-powell-ocasio-cortez-birthright.html 4 November 2025 Derived terms en East Penn Lower Penn Staffordshire Penn effect Pennfield Penns Grove Pennsville Pennsylvania Statistics According to the 2010 United States Census, Penn is the 1,849th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 19,409 individuals. Penn is most common among White (50.56%) and Black (38.50%) individuals. See also en Penn State References en Universities