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First name origins & meanings:
- Latin: Horn; feminine form of Cornelius
- Latin: Horn; hornblower
First name variations: Cornel, Cornalia, Corneelija, Cornela, Cornelija, Cornelya, Corelie, Cornella, Cornelle, Cornie, Korneelia, Korneelya, Kornelia, Kornelija, Kornelya, Neel, Neely, Nela, Nelia, Nell, Nella, Nellie, Nelly, Neal, Cornelia, Cornel, Corneille, Cornelio, Cornelious, Cornelus, Corney, Cornilius, Kornelious, Kornelis, Kornelius, Neal, Neel, Neil, Neely, Carnell, Cornelius Last name origins & meanings:
- Americanized form of any of the numerous Continental European
surnames derived from Latin Cornelius (see Cornelius),
for example French Corneille or German Kornel.
- Swedish: Latinized form of Horn, meaning ‘horn’; probably a
soldier’s name.
- English: reduced form of Cornwell or
of Cornhill, a habitational name from a place in Northumberland
named Cornhill, from Old English corn, a metathesized form of
cron, cran ‘crane’ + halh ‘nook’, ‘recess’; or
from Cornhill in London, a medieval grain exchange, named with Old
English corn ‘corn’, ‘grain’ + hyll ‘hill’, or from some
other place elsewhere similarly named.
- Ezra Cornell (1807–74), the founder of Cornell University, was
born of New England Quaker stock in Westchester Co., NY, a descendant
of Thomas Cornell of Saffron Walden, Essex, England, who emigrated
sometime before 1642, when he is recorded as being married in
Portsmouth, Newport Co., RI.
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