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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : altered form of Horn 5, under Russian influence; since Russian has no h and alters h in borrowed words to g. In Israel the name has been reinterpreted by folk etymology as being from Hebrew goren ‘threshing floor’, which is in fact etymologically and semantically unrelated.

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