When Balthasar Kern was born in 1708, in Rumbach, Pirmasens, Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany, his father, Georg Christoph Kern, was 44 and his mother, Catharine Salome Schied, was 45.
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German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German kerne ‘kernel, seed, pip’; Middle Dutch kern(e), keerne; German Kern or Yiddish kern ‘grain’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a farmer, or a nickname for a physically small person. As a Jewish surname, it is mainly artificial.
English (southeastern): metonymic occupational name for a maker or user of milk churns, from Middle English kern, kirn, kurn, a side-form of chern ‘churn’. Compare Church .
Slovenian: nickname for a stunted person, from an old spelling of krn ‘stunted’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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