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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : topographic name for someone who lived on a street corner, from a derivative of corne ‘corner’. Compare Coin.
  • French : from cornet, denoting either a rustic horn or an object made of horn, hence a metonymic occupational name for a hornblower or for a worker in horn.

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