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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name, possibly from Canetley in Cumbria, named with Celtic carn ‘cairn’ + the Old Welsh personal name Teiliau.
  • Americanized spelling of German Körnle, a diminutive of Korn.

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