Dorn Family History
Dorn Name Meaning
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.Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German Dorn
‘thorn’.Czech: see Dornak.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Dorn
Name Distribution of Dorn Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Dorn families
 128 - 253  43 - 127 |
 1 - 42  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Dorn families
|
12 - 22 5 - 11 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Dorn families
|
3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Dorn census records
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Dorn Family Origin
Dorn Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Dorn
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Dorn Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Dorn census records
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Dorn Civil War Service Records
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