Horns Surname: Origin, Meaning & Coat of Arms

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The meaning behind Horns

Clerks wrote Horn in many ways, and Horns is one that stuck. Surname dictionaries give the meaning as “Horn-shaped land”.

Horns adds a patronymic ending to Horn, meaning ‘son of’ or ‘of the family of’. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Other spellings include Hörner and Hornmann. The 2010 census count for Horns in the United States was 228, good for rank 82,613. It sits within the 100,000 most common last names in the country.

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