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Type Surname
Usage English
Pronounced Pron. HOR-NER  [key]

Meaning & History

1 English, Scottish, German, and Dutch: from Horn 1 with the agent suffix -er; an occupational name for someone who made or sold small articles made of horn, a metonymic occupational name for someone who played a musical instrument made from the horn of an animal, or a topographic name for someone who lived at a ‘horn’ of land.
2 habitational name from Horner in Diptford, Devon, which is named from Old English horn ‘horn of land’ + ora ‘hill spur’, ‘ridge’.
3 Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Horn 4.
Added 6/18/2021 by IPeeOnApples