Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from Hennor in Herefordshire or Heanor in Derbyshire, named in Old English with hēan (dative cases of hēah ‘high’) + ofer ‘ridge’.
- German : patronymic from Henne 1 and 3 or a variant of Henne 2.
- German : habitational name from Hänner in Säckingen, Henne in Saxony, or Hennen in Westphalia.