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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname from Hornung ‘February’, with reference to a tax obligation or some other association with that month, for example being born in February.
  • German : from a personal name, Hornunc.
  • German : nickname for a person born out of wedlock, Middle Low German hornink, with reference to parentage by a cuckold, traditionally symbolized by horns.
  • German : topographic name referring to the location or shape of a farming property (see Horn).

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