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Kern

in North Carolina

There are 440 people with the last name "Kern" in North Carolina.

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Ranking in North Carolina

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Kern 2,393
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  1. is 2,389th most common Thomson
  2. is 2,390th most common Blizzard
  3. is 2,391st most common Cottle
  4. is 2,392nd most common Hurt
  5. is 2,393rd most common Kern
  6. is 2,394th most common Kimrey
  7. is 2,395th most common Stockton
  8. is 2,396th most common Cartrette
  9. is 2,397th most common Kale

Similar Names and Nicknames

Kerns, Kerner, Korn, Kernan, Kerney, Karn, Kernodle, Kirn, Kernen, Kernes

Most Common First Names for Kern

Robert, David, John, Richard, Matthew, Thomas, William, Michael, Daniel, Elizabeth

Meaning & History

Irish: reduced form of McCarron.

German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German kerne ‘kernel’, ‘seed’, ‘pip’; Middle Dutch kern(e), keerne; German Kern or Yiddish kern ‘grain’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a farmer, or a nickname for a small person. As a Jewish surname, it is mainly ornamental.

English: probably a metonymic occupational name for a maker or user of hand mills, from Old English cweorn ‘hand mill’, or a habitational name for someone from Kern in the Isle of Wight, named from this word.

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Robert Kern, NC (8 searches)
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