Senn

Senn is the 6,434th most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,080 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 58,800.

By the numbers

People: 5,080
Rank: 6,434th
How common: 1 in 58,800
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

South German surname for a dairy farmer, from the common noun German Senn(e) (“herdsman in the Alps”) (15th century), from Old High German senno (“shepherd”) (11th century), from Proto-West Germanic *sannjō (“herdsman, dairyman”), from Vulgar Latin saniō (“herdsman, dairyman”) (compare Romansh Sursilvan sagn, Romansh Ladin signun (“herdsman”)), presumably from cel (compare Old Irish sine, from Proto-Celtic *sɸenyos). A relationship with (ultimately from) is unlikely.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Senn described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 91.6%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Black, not Hispanic 1.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Senn

Reinhold Senn (1936–2023)luger

People named Senn with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Senn

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.