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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from any of several places in former Silesia and East Prussia named Kornfelde or topographic name for someone who lived by a cornfield, from Middle High German korn ‘grain’ + veld ‘open country’, ‘field’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Kornfeld ‘cornfield’.

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