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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech (Kořán) : metonymic occupational name for a herbalist or spicer, from the southern dialect word kořán ‘root’.
  • Jewish (from Belarus) : habitational name from the village of Korany, now in Belarus.

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