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karnes Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish: variant of Kearns.
  2. perhaps also an Americanized spelling of Polish Karniesz, a noun derivative of the adjective karny ‘obedient’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of karnes Families in the US in 1920
Number of karnes families
 35-67
 12-34		 1-11
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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