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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Swedish: from a short form of any of the many Norse names of which arn ‘eagle’ is the first element, for example Arnbjorn, Arnfinn, and Arnsten.
  2. Swiss German: habitational name from Arn near Zürich, or from a house name, Middle High German arn ‘eagle’.
  3. Variant spelling of English Arne.