This is a list of surnames in which the categories include cornetists.
ArmstrongEnglish Means "strong arm" from Middle English. Tradition holds that the family is descended from Siward, an 11th-century Earl of Northumbria. Famous bearers of this name include the Americans Louis Armstrong (1901-1971), a jazz musician, and Neil Armstrong (1930-2012), an astronaut who was the first person to walk on the moon.
BagleyEnglish From various English place names, derived from the Old English given name Bacga combined with leah "woodland, clearing".
BarrettEnglish Probably derived from the Middle English word barat meaning "trouble, deception", originally given to a quarrelsome person.
HolmesEnglish, Scottish Variant of Holme. A famous fictional bearer was Sherlock Holmes, a detective in Arthur Conan Doyle's mystery stories beginning in 1887.
JägerGerman Means "hunter" in German, from Old High German jagon meaning "to hunt".
KeatonEnglish From any of three English place names: Ketton in Rutland, Ketton in Durham or Keaton in Devon. The first is probably derived from an old river name or tribal name combined with Old English ea "river", with the spelling later influenced by tun "enclosure, yard, town". The second is from the Old English given name Catta or the Old Norse given name Káti combined with Old English tun. The third is possibly from Cornish kee "hedge, bank" combined with Old English tun.