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Cornell

in Washington

There are 405 people with the last name "Cornell" in Washington.

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Cornell 1,496
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  1. is 1,492nd most common Weir
  2. is 1,493rd most common Yost
  3. is 1,494th most common Barnard
  4. is 1,495th most common Canfield
  5. is 1,496th most common Cornell
  6. is 1,497th most common Dewey
  7. is 1,498th most common Ervin
  8. is 1,499th most common Hamm
  9. is 1,500th most common Harder

Most Common First Names for Cornell

David, James, Robert, Heidi, John, Kenneth, Kim, Michael, Diane, Donald

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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