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Cornell

in Virginia

There are 432 people with the last name "Cornell" in Virginia.

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Cornell 1,894
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  1. is 1,890th most common Creech
  2. is 1,891st most common Tisdale
  3. is 1,892nd most common Alger
  4. is 1,893rd most common Chin
  5. is 1,894th most common Cornell
  6. is 1,895th most common Dutton
  7. is 1,896th most common Goldberg
  8. is 1,897th most common Mckenna
  9. is 1,898th most common Chisholm

Most Common First Names for Cornell

John, William, Michael, Robert, David, Lewis, Richard, Andrew, Donald, James

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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