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Nunn Name Meaning
English (mainly East Anglia): nickname for a pious and demure man, or an occupational name for someone who worked at a convent, from Middle English nunn ‘nun’ (Old English nunne, from Latin nonna, originally a respectful term of address for an elderly woman. The Latin word probably originated as a nursery term).
German: from an Old High German personal name Nunno, said to be a nursery word.
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This information was taken from an ancestry.com Comment on John Nunn, b. 1450.
"The name Nunn is an old Anglo-Saxon personal name and the family traces back among the oldest of the landed gentry in England, having a coat-of-arms crest and motto, translating from the Latin meaning "Mildly in manner - boldly in action".
Four centuries ago there was a George Nunn in Hanstead. Nunns also in Essex and Suffolk, England and it is recorded the family are still represented there.