Cornelius Forename
Approximately 140,519 people bear this name
Cornelius Forename Definition:
A male name. the name of a famous Roman gens, pcbsioly derived from cornu ‘a horn'. It was the name of the devout centurion (Acts X. I) converted by St Peter, and later of a 3rd-C martyred pope whose relics were taken to Compiègne and later to Rosnay in Flanders, whence the name became common in the Low Countries.
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| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 100% | 41,512 | 1:1,314 | 185 |
| United States | 100% | 24,694 | 1:14,681 | 1,364 |
| Kenya | 100% | 18,135 | 1:2,553 | 465 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 14,274 | 1:12,440 | 1,524 |
| Ghana | 100% | 6,518 | 1:4,140 | 549 |
| Germany | 100% | 4,790 | 1:20,183 | 929 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 3,959 | 1:65,159 | 7,880 |
| Zambia | - | 2,156 | 1:7,354 | 898 |
| England | 100% | 2,130 | 1:26,105 | 1,504 |
| Zimbabwe | 99% | 2,072 | 1:7,444 | 1,064 |
| Malawi | 100% | 2,052 | 1:8,339 | 993 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 1,897 | 1:11,392 | 1,283 |
| Ireland | 100% | 1,600 | 1:2,902 | 373 |
| Canada | 100% | 1,342 | 1:24,690 | 2,105 |
| Jamaica | - | 1,277 | 1:2,258 | 498 |
| Namibia | - | 1,065 | 1:2,257 | 421 |
| Malaysia | 99% | 980 | 1:31,071 | 2,847 |
| Uganda | 99% | 949 | 1:43,158 | 2,704 |
| Mexico | 100% | 926 | 1:134,065 | 2,955 |
| Papua New Guinea | 99% | 688 | 1:11,849 | 1,203 |
| India | 100% | 548 | 1:2,216,931 | 111,884 |
| Romania | 100% | 494 | 1:40,591 | 2,452 |
| Belgium | 100% | 435 | 1:26,414 | 1,779 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 408 | 1:75,521 | 8,273 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 405 | 1:130,342 | 6,517 |
| Liberia | 99% | 380 | 1:11,611 | 988 |
| Scotland | 100% | 355 | 1:15,071 | 849 |
| Botswana | 100% | 327 | 1:6,680 | 1,060 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 264 | 1:674 | 90 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 258 | 1:31,835 | 1,757 |
| Philippines | 100% | 246 | 1:430,933 | 15,065 |
| Poland | 100% | 236 | 1:161,132 | 3,078 |
| Bolivia | 100% | 231 | 1:45,894 | 1,957 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 218 | 1:6,245 | 1,038 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 204 | 1:82,853 | 4,621 |
| Swaziland | - | 179 | 1:7,264 | 1,100 |
| Austria | 100% | 178 | 1:47,833 | 1,474 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 172 | 1:649 | 57 |
| Dominica | - | 170 | 1:444 | 100 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 135 | 1:13,653 | 861 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 114 | 1:5,096 | 638 |
| Brazil | 100% | 111 | 1:1,930,055 | 41,145 |
| Wales | 100% | 98 | 1:31,575 | 1,392 |
| Belize | 100% | 97 | 1:3,653 | 798 |
| Guyana | 100% | 93 | 1:8,207 | 1,313 |
| Egypt | 100% | 87 | 1:1,056,333 | 18,582 |
| Paraguay | 96% | 83 | 1:87,190 | 2,376 |
| Thailand | 100% | 68 | 1:1,030,380 | 37,113 |
| Australia | - | 60 | 1:227,627 | 5,325 |
| New Zealand | - | 56 | 1:81,001 | 3,730 |
| Denmark | - | 55 | 1:102,718 | 2,940 |
| Bahamas | - | 52 | 1:7,680 | 1,037 |
| France | 100% | 47 | 1:1,414,263 | 9,545 |
| Sweden | 100% | 47 | 1:209,743 | 7,186 |
| Norway | 100% | 42 | 1:122,198 | 3,685 |
| Singapore | 100% | 41 | 1:153,343 | 8,029 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 37 | 1:281,926 | 10,232 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 31 | 1:3,540 | 630 |
| DR Congo | 100% | 27 | 1:2,734,356 | 59,996 |
| Grenada | 100% | 25 | 1:4,325 | 740 |
| Pakistan | 97% | 25 | 1:7,774,307 | 62,662 |
| Italy | 99% | 22 | 1:2,775,550 | 17,247 |
| Chile | 61% | 19 | 1:926,695 | 8,687 |
| Mozambique | - | 16 | 1:1,702,710 | 1,919 |
| Sudan | 100% | 16 | 1:2,362,936 | 3,917 |
| Barbados | - | 14 | 1:20,699 | 1,571 |
| Iraq | - | 14 | 1:2,501,276 | 13,388 |
| China | - | 12 | 1:113,837,982 | 65,289 |
| Panama | 100% | 12 | 1:325,546 | 10,471 |
| Ecuador | - | 11 | 1:1,611,538 | 10,117 |
| Benin | 100% | 10 | 1:1,057,584 | 26,153 |
| Qatar | 100% | 10 | 1:236,960 | 22,379 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 9 | 1:11,044 | 1,733 |
| Bahrain | - | 9 | 1:149,853 | 3,890 |
| Bangladesh | - | 9 | 1:17,717,930 | 19,122 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 9 | 1:62,672 | 2,160 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 9 | 1:5,692 | 857 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 9 | 1:787,629 | 675 |
| Spain | 100% | 9 | 1:5,169,996 | 15,759 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 9 | 1:2,311,010 | 7,931 |
| Aruba | - | 8 | 1:12,972 | 1,901 |
| Brunei | - | 8 | 1:52,446 | 1,266 |
| Jersey | - | 8 | 1:12,498 | 955 |
| Lesotho | 83% | 8 | 1:255,000 | 16,349 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 8 | 1:3,775,237 | 55,178 |
| Japan | - | 7 | 1:18,283,722 | 43,935 |
| Estonia | - | 6 | 1:219,230 | 6,245 |
| Finland | 100% | 6 | 1:913,864 | 8,662 |
| Micronesia | - | 5 | 1:21,300 | 626 |
| Moldova | - | 4 | 1:890,285 | 4,314 |
| Monaco | 100% | 4 | 1:9,616 | 1,312 |
| Russia | 100% | 4 | 1:36,058,426 | 83,389 |
| South Korea | - | 4 | 1:1,386,105 | 20,690 |
| Afghanistan | - | 3 | 1:10,874,505 | 40,253 |
| Nauru | 100% | 3 | 1:3,976 | 333 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 3 | 1:2,383,998 | 75,650 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 2 | 1:2,383,974 | 18,662 |
| Greece | - | 2 | 1:5,467,274 | 17,678 |
| Hong Kong | - | 2 | 1:3,876,362 | 13,851 |
| Hungary | 100% | 2 | 1:4,895,886 | 4,852 |
| Iran | - | 2 | 1:39,248,434 | 50,459 |
| Lithuania | - | 2 | 1:1,475,941 | 3,949 |
| Peru | - | 2 | 1:15,895,727 | 74,652 |
| Ukraine | - | 2 | 1:22,749,954 | 22,291 |
| Vietnam | 100% | 2 | 1:46,311,556 | 7,272 |
| Albania | 100% | 1 | 1:3,046,570 | 49,159 |
| Angola | - | 1 | 1:26,966,606 | 7,835 |
| Anguilla | - | 1 | 1:13,255 | 1,687 |
| Burundi | - | 1 | 1:9,906,559 | 2,558 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 1 | 1:61,299 | 2,487 |
| Croatia | - | 1 | 1:4,217,076 | 20,943 |
| Ethiopia | - | 1 | 1:97,560,133 | 29,608 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 1 | 1:49,127 | 2,467 |
| Fiji | - | 1 | 1:892,378 | 3,968 |
| Georgia | - | 1 | 1:3,738,466 | 29,095 |
| Guam | - | 1 | 1:160,646 | 3,210 |
| Guatemala | - | 1 | 1:16,108,429 | 13,998 |
| Guernsey | - | 1 | 1:63,331 | 901 |
| Guinea | - | 1 | 1:11,858,647 | 7,978 |
| Iceland | - | 1 | 1:366,017 | 7,938 |
| Israel | 100% | 1 | 1:8,402,918 | 45,019 |
| Kuwait | - | 1 | 1:3,785,264 | 15,388 |
| Laos | - | 1 | 1:6,586,856 | 1,888 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 1 | 1:5,627,571 | 19,299 |
| Mauritius | - | 1 | 1:1,297,784 | 13,721 |
| Nepal | - | 1 | 1:28,487,352 | 119,417 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 1 | 1:54,668 | 1,803 |
| Palestine | 100% | 1 | 1:4,550,058 | 5,739 |
| Saint Barthelemy | - | 1 | 1:9,555 | 215 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | - | 1 | 1:54,861 | 2,604 |
| Saint Martin | - | 1 | 1:35,746 | 277 |
| Taiwan | - | 1 | 1:23,769,682 | 193,280 |
| Tajikistan | 100% | 1 | 1:8,374,922 | 7,831 |
| Turkey | - | 1 | 1:77,801,709 | 91,051 |
The alternate forms: Cornélius (10) are calculated separately.
Cornelius (58,175) may also be a surname.
Cornelius Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A male name. the name of a famous Roman gens, pcbsioly derived from cornu ‘a horn'. It was the name of the devout centurion (Acts X. I) converted by St Peter, and later of a 3rd-C martyred pope whose relics were taken to Compiègne and later to Rosnay in Flanders, whence the name became common in the Low Countries. It is not found in England until the 16th and 17th C, when it was brought back by returning sectaries who had taken refuge in the Netherlands; examples are Cornelys Smythe 1504, Cornelius Todd, s. of a Presbyterian b. 1631, and Cornelius, s. of Seth Wood, an ejected minister. Cornelius or Corney is often found in Ireland, where they came into use to translate the native Conchobhar (see Connor).
The Latin name. Some translate it ‘horn.’ Littleton says, ‘a belli cornu.’ The name in Greek is Κορνήλιος, which some translate ‘horn of the sun.’ If so, it must come from κερας horn, and ηλιος. Viscount Gort (N. Q. 4th S. x. 300) says the name Connor has been transformed into the classical name Cornelius.
Greek (masculine) - Kook, bird of good omen.
Kor-ne'-le-us, a horn. A centurion of a cohort belonging to the legion surnamed Italian. Acts x. 1 3, &c.
Meaning: pitiless satiety: pertaining to a horn.
A Latin name, meaning: The cornel tree: hornlike.
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Average Cornelius Salary in
United States
$42,365 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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