Updated June 9, 2019

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Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name for someone who lived by a thorn bush or thorn hedge, from Middle High German dorn ‘thorn’, or a habitational name from any of numerous places named with this word.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Dorn ‘thorn’.
  • Czech : see Dornak.