The Horner surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 23,881 people carried this name — #1,500 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 12,300 people counted. That is up 2% from 23,308 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Horner surname
From Middle English hornere.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Horner» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
399 people named Horner live in Switzerland.
They live in 19 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Fribourg.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Ireland’s birth registers, 1890
Ireland registered 6 births for the Horner name in 1890.
Most were registered in Ulster. By the Registrar-General’s own method — births multiplied by 44.38 — that is about 300 people bearing the name in Ireland at the time. The Registrar-General’s note on the name: “Antrim.”
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born, 1890
Registrar-General for Ireland, «Special Report on Surnames in Ireland» (R. E. Matheson, 1894), births index of 1890 — public domain.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 77 people named Horner.
7 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 13 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 20 people named Horner live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Córdoba.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In the Nordic population registers
138 people named Horner is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Horner in American newspapers,
1910–1920.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 3,072,845 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Horner,
with a public archive behind them.
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George Horner d. 1677 · lawyer -
Nicholas Horner d. 1590 · politician
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Maurice Horner d. 1621 · politician
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Ruth M. Arnold d. 1978 · mycologist
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Edmund Horner d. 1660
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Florence Horner d. 1922
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Horner.
- Horen 385 · U.S. census
- Horn 52,138 · U.S. census
- Hornbeck 3,206 · U.S. census
- Hornberger 3,368 · U.S. census
- Horneck 191 · U.S. census
- Hornecker 281 · U.S. census
- Hornung 2,830 · U.S. census
- Horny 132 · U.S. census
- Horry 386 · U.S. census
- Horst 9,245 · U.S. census
- Horta 3,889 · U.S. census
- Horter 309 · U.S. census
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