Honer Family History
Honer Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a sharpener of tools a grinder or honer from a derivative of Middle English hone ‘whetstone’ (Old English hān ‘stone’) + -er. In Surrey Sussex and Hampshire the name may also have been topographic for someone who lived by a prominent rock or by a boundary stone from a Middle English derivative of Hone + -er. See Hone . North German (Höner): variant of Hohner .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022