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Kern

in Rhode Island

There are 61 people with the last name "Kern" in Rhode Island.

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Ranking in Rhode Island

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Kern 2,353
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  1. is 2,349th most common Hanlon
  2. is 2,350th most common Haskell
  3. is 2,351st most common Hooper
  4. is 2,352nd most common Jalbert
  5. is 2,353rd most common Kern
  6. is 2,354th most common Lafrance
  7. is 2,355th most common Lapre
  8. is 2,356th most common Lees
  9. is 2,357th most common Mackie

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Kern

Josef, Augustus, David, Donald, Heidi, James, Joseph, Kurt, Mark, Sarah

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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