Dorn Family History

German: topographic name for someone who lived by a thorn bush or thorn hedge from Middle High German dorn ‘thorn’ or a habitational name from any of numerous places called with this word. It is also found in Poland and Czechia.

Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German Dorn ‘thorn’. English: habitational name from Dorn in Blockley Worcestershire which is possibly derived from British duro- ‘fort stronghold’.

English: variant of Thorn, a topographic name for someone who lived by a thorn bush or hedge (Old English Old Norse thorn) or alternatively a habitational name from a place named with Old English Old Norse thorn ‘thorn bush’.

For example Thorne in Kent Somerset and South Yorkshire.