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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from South German dialect Karner ‘charnel house’, hence a metonymic occupational name for an undertaker.
  • German : in northern Germany, a metonymic occupational name for a peddler who used a handcart or barrow, from Karren ‘cart’ + the -er agent suffix.
  • German : possibly a variant of Kerner or Körner (see Koerner) or an altered spelling of Garner, Gerner.

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