# Senne (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/senne/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | French |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 806 |
| US rank (2010) | 29,334 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 383,059 people |
| Change since 2000 | -0.2% (808 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As a German surname, spelling variant of Senn. * As a French surname, from Old French sené (“sage, wise”). * As an Italian surname, spelling variant of Senna, from the placenames Senna Lodigiana and Senna Comasco, both possibly from Etruscan 𐌔𐌄𐌌𐌍𐌀 (semna). Also from senna (“cassia plant”), from Arabic سَنَا (sanā, “plant whose leaves has cathartic properties”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Senne in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 95% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.5% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9% |
| Two or more races | 1.1% |

## Similar surnames

Sena, Senn, Sen, Senna, Sene, Sweeney, Snow, Sheehan, Swain, Sun, Swan, Shin.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.