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Cornell

in North Carolina

There are 399 people with the last name "Cornell" in North Carolina.

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Ranking in North Carolina

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Cornell 2,571
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  1. is 2,567th most common Colson
  2. is 2,568th most common Cruse
  3. is 2,569th most common Hays
  4. is 2,570th most common Skeen
  5. is 2,571st most common Cornell
  6. is 2,572nd most common Frick
  7. is 2,573rd most common Gatling
  8. is 2,574th most common Granger
  9. is 2,575th most common Kinley

Most Common First Names for Cornell

David, Robert, James, Barbara, Charles, John, Mary, Michael, Richard, Susan

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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