Pinchin Family History
Pinchin Name Meaning
from the Old French personal name Pinçun Normano-Picard Pinchon apparently derived from Old French pinçon ‘finch’. Spellings with -ch- and -s- are often interchangeable as late as the 17th century. Pinchon or Pinson also sometimes alternated with Punchon (see Puncheon ) but it it is not known if the two names were genuine phonetic variants or were merely confused with each other. In 1381
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016