Family name origins & meanings
- German : from South German dialect Karner ‘charnel house’, hence a metonymic occupational name for an undertaker.
- German : in northern Germany, a metonymic occupational name for a peddler who used a handcart or barrow, from Karren ‘cart’ + the -er agent suffix.
- German : possibly a variant of Kerner or Körner (see Koerner) or an altered spelling of Garner, Gerner.