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Horn

in Iowa

There are 528 people with the last name "Horn" in Iowa.

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Ranking in Iowa

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Horn 489
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  1. is 485th most common Skinner
  2. is 486th most common Archer
  3. is 487th most common Harmon
  4. is 488th most common Vaughn
  5. is 489th most common Horn
  6. is 490th most common Ackerman
  7. is 491st most common Kent
  8. is 492nd most common Vanwyk
  9. is 493rd most common Kemp

Most Common First Names for Horn

James, Michael, John, Mary, Scott, Deborah, Harold, Nancy, Sarah, William

Meaning & History

English, Scottish, German, and Dutch: from Middle English, Middle High German, Middle Dutch horn ‘horn’, applied in a variety of senses: as a metonymic occupational name for someone who made small articles, such as combs, spoons, and window lights, out of horn; as a metonymic occupational name for someone who played a musical instrument made from the horn of an animal; as a topographic name for someone who lived by a horn-shaped spur of a hill or tongue of land in a bend of a river, or a habitational name from any of the places named with this element (for example, in England, Horne in Surrey on a spur of a hill and Horn in Rutland in a bend of a river); as a nickname, perhaps referring to some feature of a person's physical appearance, or denoting a cuckolded husband.

Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named, from Old Norse horn ‘horn’, ‘spur of land’.

Swedish: ornamental or topographic name from horn ‘horn’, ‘spur of land’.

Jewish (Ashkenazic): presumably from German Horn ‘horn’, adopted as a surname for reasons that are not clear. It may be purely ornamental, or it may refer to the ram's horn (Hebrew shofar) blown in the Synagogue during various ceremonies.

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