Cornet Family History
Cornet Name Meaning
French and Walloon: topographic name for someone who lived on a street corner from a derivative of corne ‘corner’. Compare Coin . French and Walloon: from cornet denoting either a rustic horn or an object made of horn hence a metonymic occupational name for a hornblower or for a worker in horn (compare Corne ). French and Walloon: habitational name from (Le) Cornet the name of several places in various parts of France and in Belgium (Wallonia). Scottish (of Norman origin): variant of Cornett . German: of French origin (see above). The name probably came to Germany in the 17th century with the French Huguenots.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022