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Horn

in North Carolina

There are 917 people with the last name "Horn" in North Carolina.

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Ranking in North Carolina

NameRank
Horn 1,235
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  1. is 1,231st most common Pulley
  2. is 1,232nd most common Adcock
  3. is 1,233rd most common Blackwelder
  4. is 1,234th most common Grubb
  5. is 1,235th most common Horn
  6. is 1,236th most common Minor
  7. is 1,237th most common Shaver
  8. is 1,238th most common Shoemaker
  9. is 1,239th most common Penland

Most Common First Names for Horn

Michael, James, John, Robert, William, David, Mary, Michelle, Richard, Linda

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 North Carolina

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