# Corn (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/corn/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 6,528 |
| US rank (2010) | 5,335 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 47,296 people |
| Change since 2000 | -1.7% (6,643 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As an English surname, from the nouns crane, corn, and quern. * As a German surname, spelling variant of Korn, meaning "grain."

## Who carries it

Share of people named Corn in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 87% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 3.6% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.8% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.1% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 3.6% |
| Two or more races | 2.3% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Corn in the United States.

## People named Corn

- David Corn, American journalist (born 1959)

## Similar surnames

Corona, Crone, Crown, Cron, Carone, Carn, Croney, Corrin, Corwin, Corum, Coram, Crane.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.