Origin and popularity of the name OEN
Origin
Oen : 1: Norwegian (Øen): habitational name from the farm name Øen found in several places. In Hornindal in Nordfjord and in Ål in Hallingdal it is from øy ‘meadow by water’ in Hyllestad in Sunnfjord from å ‘small river’ + Old Norse vin ‘meadow’ in other places from the definite singular form of øy ‘island’.2: Norwegian: habitational name from the farm name Oen in Hordaland from Old Norse Ó unexplained.3: Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 溫 (mainly found in Indonesia) possibly based on its Hokkien pronunciation see Wen 1.
Source : DAFN2 : Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, ©2022 by Patrick Hanks and Oxford University Press
FANBI : The Oxford Dictionary if Family Names in Britain and Ireland, ©2016, University of the West of England
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