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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : Eastphalian or Americanized form of a personal name composed of the Germanic elements hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’ + nit ‘battle fury’, ‘eagerness to fight’, or a habitational name from a place so called in Brandenburg or in the Rhineland.
  • English : probably a derivative of Horn.

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