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The korn Surname

korn Name Meaning and History

  1. German: from Middle High German korn ‘grain’, a metonymic occupational name for a factor or dealer in grain or a nickname for a peasant.
  2. Dutch and German: from a short form of the personal name Cornelis or Cornelius.
  3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): from German Korn (Yiddish korn) ‘grain’, a metonymic occupational name as in 1, or an ornamental name.
  4. Czech: from a short form of the Czech personal name Kornel, a vernacular form of Cornelius.

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

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

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Distribution of korn Families in the US in 1920
Number of korn families
 137-272
 46-136		 1-45
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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