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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : nickname from Old English corn, a metathesized form of cran ‘crane’ (see Crane).
  • English : from Middle English corn ‘grain’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for a grain merchant or grower, or possibly a miller.
  • English : metonymic occupational name for a maker or user of hand mills, Old English cweorn.
  • Altered spelling of German Korn or a shortened form of any of the composite names formed with this element.

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