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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Körner) : occupational name for a grain merchant or possibly for the administrator of a granary, Middle High German körner.
  • German (Körner) : nickname for a miller, from a noun derivative of Middle High German kürne ‘mill’.
  • German (Körner) : from the personal name Kor(de)ner, a derivative of Konrad, which was altered to Körner.

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