Pen Family History
Pen Name Meaning
English: variant of Penn . Dutch: metonymic occupational name for a clerk or penman from pen ‘pen’ or for a craftsman using pins from pen ‘pin’ (compare Pin ). Breton (mainly Le Pen): topographic name or nickname from penn ‘head’. Alternatively perhaps a cognate of French Payen (compare Pean ). Compare also Pene 2 and Penn 8. Slovenian: nickname or ethnic name of the same origin as German Böhm (see Boehm ) meaning ‘Bohemian’ (i.e. ‘Czech’). Alternatively from an old short form of the personal name Pernhart an old South German variant of Bernhard (see Bernard ). Cambodian: written ប៉ែន of Chinese origin (see Bin ).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022