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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : metonymic occupational name for a dealer in oats, from Middle High German haber(e) ‘oats’ + korn ‘grain’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : adoption of 1, probably as an ornamental-occupational name for a grain merchant.

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