Cornell

in Kansas

There are 137 people with the last name "Cornell" in Kansas.

Ranking in Kansas

Name	Rank
Cornell	2,232

is 2,228th most common Teter
is 2,229th most common Trowbridge
is 2,230th most common Blackwood
is 2,231st most common Catron
is 2,232nd most common Cornell
is 2,233rd most common Cruse
is 2,234th most common Frantz
is 2,235th most common Kearns
is 2,236th most common Logsdon

Meaning & History

Cornell

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 (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.