Cornell

in California

There are 1,537 people with the last name "Cornell" in California.

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Ranking in California

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Cornell 1,836
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  1. is 1,832nd most common Daley
  2. is 1,833rd most common Pritchard
  3. is 1,834th most common Villagomez
  4. is 1,835th most common Rojo
  5. is 1,836th most common Cornell
  6. is 1,837th most common Childs
  7. is 1,838th most common Delrio
  8. is 1,839th most common Tomlinson
  9. is 1,840th most common England

Most Common First Names for Cornell

John, James, Michael, Robert, William, Richard, Barbara, David, George



Meaning & History

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.

FOREBEARS Ezra Cornell (180774), 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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