Family name origins & meanings
- German : from Middle High German korn ‘grain’, a metonymic occupational name for a factor or dealer in grain or a nickname for a peasant.
- Dutch and German : from a short form of the personal name Cornelis or Cornelius.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from German Korn (Yiddish korn) ‘grain’, a metonymic occupational name as in 1, or an ornamental name.
- Czech : from a short form of the Czech personal name Kornel, a vernacular form of Cornelius.