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Horn

in New Mexico

There are 175 people with the last name "Horn" in New Mexico.

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Ranking in New Mexico

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Horn 955
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  1. is 951st most common Woodard
  2. is 952nd most common Atkins
  3. is 953rd most common Daugherty
  4. is 954th most common Durham
  5. is 955th most common Horn
  6. is 956th most common Joseph
  7. is 957th most common Pitts
  8. is 958th most common Riggs
  9. is 959th most common Shaffer

Most Common First Names for Horn

Mary, Frank, Robert, William, Daniel, Dave, James, Ron, Albert, Andrea

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.

Recent Searches for "Horn" in New Mexico

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Mary Horn, NM (4 searches)
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