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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Cumbria) : unexplained. Compare Cartner.
  • Americanized spelling of German Kortner, probably a habitational name from any of several places called Korten in Westphalia, the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant. This is also found as a Norwegian name, probably taken there from Germany.

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