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Cornell

in New York

There are 1,770 people with the last name "Cornell" in New York.

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Ranking in New York

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Cornell 793
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  1. is 789th most common Jacobson
  2. is 790th most common Lo
  3. is 791st most common Oleary
  4. is 792nd most common Robert
  5. is 793rd most common Cornell
  6. is 794th most common Walton
  7. is 795th most common Ma
  8. is 796th most common Hodge
  9. is 797th most common Tran

Most Common First Names for Cornell

Robert, David, James, Michael, Richard, Charles, Donald, Ronald, William, John

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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