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horner Name Meaning and History

  1. English, Scottish, German, and Dutch: from Horn 1 with the agent suffix -er; an occupational name for someone who made or sold small articles made of horn, a metonymic occupational name for someone who played a musical instrument made from the horn of an animal, or a topographic name for someone who lived at a ‘horn’ of land.
  2. habitational name from Horner in Diptford, Devon, which is named from Old English horn ‘horn of land’ + ora ‘hill spur’, ‘ridge’.
  3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Horn 4.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of horner Families in the US in 1920
Number of horner families
 240-478
 81-239		 1-80
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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