Family name origins & meanings
- English : nickname from Old English corn, a metathesized form of cran ‘crane’ (see Crane).
- English : from Middle English corn ‘grain’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for a grain merchant or grower, or possibly a miller.
- English : metonymic occupational name for a maker or user of hand mills, Old English cweorn.
- Altered spelling of German Korn or a shortened form of any of the composite names formed with this element.