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The cornell Surname

cornell Name Meaning and History

  1. Americanized form of any of the numerous Continental European surnames derived from Latin Cornelius (see Cornelius), for example French Corneille or German Kornel.
  2. Swedish: Latinized form of Horn, meaning ‘horn’; probably a soldier’s name.
  3. 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.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of cornell Families in the US in 1920
Number of cornell families
 447-892
 150-446		 1-149
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