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Cornell

in Rhode Island

There are 185 people with the last name "Cornell" in Rhode Island.

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Ranking in Rhode Island

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Cornell 659
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  1. is 655th most common Tierney
  2. is 656th most common Arias
  3. is 657th most common Cameron
  4. is 658th most common Choquette
  5. is 659th most common Cornell
  6. is 660th most common Dumas
  7. is 661st most common Fortier
  8. is 662nd most common Goodwin
  9. is 663rd most common Hudson

Most Common First Names for Cornell

Patricia, Robert, Cynthia, David, Holly, John, Karen, Richard, Sean, Allen

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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