Kern

in the US

There are 24,758 people with the last name "Kern" in the United States.

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Ranking in the US

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Kern 1,069
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  1. is 1,065th most common England
  2. is 1,066th most common Farris
  3. is 1,067th most common Hickey
  4. is 1,068th most common Chamberlain
  5. is 1,069th most common Kern
  6. is 1,070th most common Cantu
  7. is 1,071st most common Mcallister
  8. is 1,072nd most common Rankin
  9. is 1,073rd most common Ritchie

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Kern

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



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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