Origin and popularity of the name CORNELIUS

Origin

Cornelius : Dutch German Danish and southern English: from the Latin personal name Cornelius (originally an old Roman surname probably derived from cornu ‘horn’) borne by a 3rd-century pope and Christian saint. In England this name is rarely found before the 16th century when the name was brought to England from the Low Countries by Protestants among whom it was also a popular name in the vernacular form Cornelis. In North America this surname may also be an altered form of the German or Dutch variant Kornelius.

Cornely : 1: German: Latinized (humanistic) patronymic from the personal name Kornelius or Cornelius based on the Latin genitive Corneli(i).2: French (Cornély): from a personal name from Latin Cornelius (see Cornelius).

Kuras : 1: Polish: nickname from dialect kurasz kuraś ‘big fat rooster’ a derivative of kur ‘rooster’.2: Czech (Kuraš): from an altered form of the personal name Kornel Czech form of Cornelius (see Cornell).3: Jewish (from Belarus): perhaps a habitational name for someone from the village of Kurashi in Belarus.

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Last name frequency

Geographic distribution of the 29,756 individuals with the name CORNELIUS on Geneanet.

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