Last name: ZORN

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ZORN : This last name is indexed 69,576 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

ZORN : 1: German (rarely Zörn) and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a short-tempered man from Middle High German zorn German Zorn ‘wrath anger’.2: German (of Slavic origin) and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname or metonymic occupational name from a Germanized Slavic word meaning ‘black’ (compare 3 and Cerny) or ‘grain’ (compare Zern).3: Germanized form of Sorbian Čorn (or perhaps by shortening of some other surname beginning with Čorn-): nickname derived from Upper Sorbian čorny ‘black’.4: Slovenian: probably a nickname from an old spelling of zoren ‘early morning’ also ‘fresh’. It is also possible but less likely that the name is of German origin (see 1 above compare Corn).

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