Horn

in the US

There are 44,567 people with the last name "Horn" in the United States.

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Ranking in the US

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Horn 545
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  1. is 541st most common Poole
  2. is 542nd most common Kirk
  3. is 543rd most common Abbott
  4. is 544th most common Massey
  5. is 545th most common Horn
  6. is 546th most common Kirby
  7. is 547th most common Anthony
  8. is 548th most common Atkinson
  9. is 549th most common Allison

Most Common First Names for Horn

Robert, John, James, Michael, David, William, Richard, Mary, Charles, Thomas



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.


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