Fenner
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Ev. Herkunftsname zu Venn/Venne/Fenne oder Wohnstättenname zu mnd
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈfɛnɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fenner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 29K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 38K
- DEGermany≈1 in 41K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 335 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Ev. Herkunftsname zu Venn/Venne/Fenne oder Wohnstättenname zu mnd. ven(ne) 'Moor'; zeigt F/V-Variation. Bearer count: 1165.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fenner counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Fenner | 3 |
| US United States | — | 7,678 | 1 in 43K | 7.7K | Fenner | 335 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Fenner | 147 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Fenner | 110 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,619 | 1 in 131K | 1.6K | — | 3 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Fenner | 114 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 542 | 1 in 16K | 542 | Fenner | 31 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Fenner | 9 |
| JM Jamaica | #928 | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Fenner | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Fenner is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Berufsname zu mhd. venre/vener/vaner, mnd. vanere/vener(e)/vender 'Fahnenträger'; Umbildung zu -rich. 1165 Tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In Norwegian Nynorsk, indefinite plural of fonn
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Arthur Fennerb. 1745USAmerican politician (1745-1805)
- James Fennerb. 1771USAmerican politician (1771-1846)
- Ellen Aline Fennerb. 1889USAmerican botanist (1889-)
- Thomas Fennerb. 1904GBEnglish footballer (born 1904)
- Rudolf Fennerb. 1910DEGerman actor and voice actor (1910-1982)
- Frank Fennerb. 1914AUAustralian virologist (1914–2010)
- Peggy Fennerb. 1922GBBritish politician (1922-2014)
- Derrick Fennerb. 1967USAmerican football player
- Mark Fennerb. 1994USAmerican male curler
- John Fennerdirector of photography
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 29 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.7K | #4,619 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 7K | #4,636 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.7K | #5,037 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.6K | #5,930 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 542 | #2,370 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Fenner?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈfɛnɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Fenner mean?
- Recorded meaning: Ev. Herkunftsname zu Venn/Venne/Fenne oder Wohnstättenname zu mnd.
- In which country does Fenner have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Fenner in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fenner.
- Where is Fenner most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Fenner is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 16 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Fenner?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,678 people named Fenner in 2010, about 1 in 43 thousand residents.
- How common is Fenner compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Fenner is the 928th most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fennerThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Fenner” — the 928th most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.