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kerner Name Meaning and History

  1. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a farmer or a nickname for a small person, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kerne ‘kernel’, ‘seed’, ‘pip’, German Kern or Yiddish kern ‘grain’.
  2. German: occupational name for a carter, from Karren ‘cart’ (see Karner).
  3. Alemannic occupational name for a baker using spelt (a type of wheat) or for a spelt dealer.
  4. German: variant of Körner (see Korner).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of kerner Families in the US in 1920
Number of kerner families
 66-129
 23-65		 1-22
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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