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Cornell

in Pennsylvania

There are 906 people with the last name "Cornell" in Pennsylvania.

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Ranking in Pennsylvania

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Cornell 1,270
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  1. is 1,266th most common Foltz
  2. is 1,267th most common Sands
  3. is 1,268th most common Simms
  4. is 1,269th most common Khan
  5. is 1,270th most common Cornell
  6. is 1,271st most common Watt
  7. is 1,272nd most common Stuart
  8. is 1,273rd most common Bucher
  9. is 1,274th most common Mcgraw

Most Common First Names for Cornell

Robert, James, William, David, Michael, Richard, Mary, John, Ronald

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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