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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : apparently a topographic name for someone who lived near an area of open land frequented by cranes, from Old English corn, a metathesized form of cron, cran ‘crane’ + feld ‘open country’, or a habitational name from a place name with the same origin.
  • Translation of Jewish or German Kornfeld.

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