Cenna: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

It is easy to miss Cenna in an index if you only search for Senna.

The family name meaning is “Italian places, a personal name or a plant association”, the same as for Senna. The two spellings differ in a small detail: Cenna has “c” where Senna has “s”. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written.

Family crest and blazon

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