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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French unexplained. : unexplained. Perhaps an altered spelling of Corneyre, a ‘learned’ form of Cornier, a topographic name for someone who lived on the corner of a street.
  • French unexplained. : Alternatively, it may be a French form of German Koerner.

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