Penn

Etymology

As an English surname, it comes from various places called Penn, such as those in Buckinghamshire or Staffordshire, which are of Brythonic origin, from Proto-Brythonic *penn (“(hill) top, head”). As an English surname it can also come from the noun pen (“enclosure”), or be a spelling variant of Parnell. As a German surname, it comes from Sorbian pien (“tree stump”), from Proto-Slavic *pьňь.