Horner Family History
Horner Name Meaning
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.habitational name from Horner in Diptford, Devon, which is
named from Old English horn ‘horn of land’ + ora ‘hill
spur’, ‘ridge’.Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Horn
4.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Horner Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Horner families
 240 - 478  81 - 239 |
 1 - 80  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Horner families
|
1,026 - 2,050 343 - 1,025 |
1 - 342 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Horner families
|
39 - 76 14 - 38 |
1 - 13 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Horner Family Origin
Horner Immigration Information
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Horner Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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