Given name & surname
Kornelius
“resembling a horn”
Kornelius is a variant of Korneli. One Basque interpretation is “resembling a horn.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Kornelius is a variant of Korneli. One Basque interpretation is “resembling a horn.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Kornelius is a variant of Korneli. An origin associated with Korneli is Basque.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Faroese usage, Kornelius developed from Cornelius.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1987. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kornelius through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 51
- 51 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2012
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 2012.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kornelius’s family of names
In Faroese usage, Kornelius developed from the Latin form Cornelius. In Norwegian usage, Kornelius has a conventional equivalent in the French form Corneille. In Norwegian usage, Kornelius has a conventional equivalent in the English form Cornelius.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Kornelius has relatives in 4 languages.
3 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 11
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Corneliusroot · English, Latin
- Cornelioequivalent
- Kornelequivalent
- Keesequivalent
- Cornelisequivalent
- Korneelequivalent
- Korneliuszequivalent
- Ceesequivalent
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People named Kornelius
- Kornelius SipayungRoman Catholic archbishopborn 1970
- Kornelius Normann HansenNorwegian association football playerborn 2001
- Cornelius of Pechorycleric (1501-1570)
- Kornelius BergsvikNorwegian politician (1889–1975)
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