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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : habitational name for someone from any of numerous places in the Netherlands named Hoorn, named with Dutch hoorn ‘point’ or ‘nook’.
  • Christian Barentsen van Horn emigrated from the Netherlands to New Netherland before 1653.

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