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Shinn

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : metonymic occupational name for a Skinner, from Old English scinn, Middle English shin ‘hide’, ‘pelt’. In Middle English this word was replaced by the Norse equivalent, skinn.

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