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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : topographic name for a fen dweller (see Van Veen).
  • Altered spelling of German Vennemann, a topographic name for someone who lived by a pit or bog (see Venn), or a habitational name for someone from a place called Venne, near Osnabrück.

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