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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name for a hornblower or worker in horn, from an agent derivative of Old French corne ‘horn’ (see Corne).
  • English : metonymic occupational name for a maker of hand mills, from an agent derivative of Old English cweorn ‘hand mill’ (see Corn 3).
  • English : topographic name for someone who lived on the corner of two streets or tracks, (Middle English corner, from Old French cornier ‘angle’, ‘corner’).
  • Americanized spelling of German Körner (see Koerner) or Swiss Korner.

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