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The cornet Surname

cornet Name Meaning and History

  1. topographic name for someone who lived on a street corner, from a derivative of corne ‘corner’. Compare Coin.
  2. from cornet, denoting either a rustic horn or an object made of horn, hence a metonymic occupational name for a hornblower or for a worker in horn.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of cornet Families in the US in 1920
Number of cornet families
 9-16
 4-8
 1-3
 0
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