Last name: WREN
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WREN : This last name is indexed 67,858 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WREN : 1: English: nickname from the bird from Middle English wrenne ‘wren’ (Old English wrenna wrænna) perhaps for a person of small stature.2: Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Rinn (see Ring).3: Welsh: Anglicized form of the personal name Uren.
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