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Cornell

in New Jersey

There are 352 people with the last name "Cornell" in New Jersey.

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Ranking in New Jersey

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Cornell 2,183
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  1. is 2,179th most common Scherer
  2. is 2,180th most common Stapleton
  3. is 2,181st most common Woolley
  4. is 2,182nd most common Bhatia
  5. is 2,183rd most common Cornell
  6. is 2,184th most common Merino
  7. is 2,185th most common Perdomo
  8. is 2,186th most common Rainey
  9. is 2,187th most common Sheldon

Most Common First Names for Cornell

David, James, John, Joseph, Edward, Robert, Christopher, Diane, Michael, Patricia

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 (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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