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The dorn Surname

dorn Name Meaning and History

  1. German: topographic name for someone who lived by a thorn bush or thorn hedge, from Middle High German dorn ‘thorn’, or a habitational name from any of numerous places named with this word.
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German Dorn ‘thorn’.
  3. Czech: see Dornak.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The dorn name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the dorn family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of dorn Families in the US in 1920
Number of dorn families
 128-253
 43-127		 1-42
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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