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Kern

in Pennsylvania

There are 2,338 people with the last name "Kern" in Pennsylvania.

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Ranking in Pennsylvania

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Kern 373
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  1. is 369th most common Goodman
  2. is 370th most common Patton
  3. is 371st most common Cummings
  4. is 372nd most common Saunders
  5. is 373rd most common Kern
  6. is 374th most common Baldwin
  7. is 375th most common Rowe
  8. is 376th most common Yost
  9. is 377th most common Chambers

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Kern

Robert, Richard, David, William, John, James, Michael, Donald, Thomas, George

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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