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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized spelling of German Kobern, a habitational name from Kowarren, the German form of a place in Lithuania called Kavarskas, named in Lithuanian from kovoti ‘to forge’.
  • English : possibly a variant spelling of Cockburn.

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