Corne
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Obsolete spelling of corn
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries
/kɔʁn/(recorded in a dictionary) French · from Wiktionary
Corne is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 52K(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 230Kfew records
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 380Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 160 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 45K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Corné in FR France.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)cuer de roi king’s heart. There is no connection with the name of the fabric, which is not recorded before the 18th cent. metonymic occupational name for a hornblower or worker in horn, from OF come horn (LL coma, originally a con¬ traction of cornua, pi. of cornu, but later treated as a fern, sing.). Vars.: Cord(e)rey, Cordurey, Corde(a)ry, Cordray.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
How Corne is read
(measured from records)Corne is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English40%
Obsolete spelling of corn.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French34%
cuer de roi king’s heart. There is no connection with the name of the fabric, which is not recorded before the 18th cent. metonymic occupational name for a hornblower or worker in horn, from OF come horn (LL coma, originally a con¬ traction of cornua, pi. of cornu, but later treated as a fern, sing.). Vars.: Cord(e)rey, Cordurey, Corde(a)ry, Cordray.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
- Spanish16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Corne in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Corne counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 45K | 136 | Corné | 26 |
| US United States | 479 | 1 in 694K | 536 | Corne | 160 |
| PE Peru | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Corne | 16 |
| BE Belgium | 227 | 1 in 52K | 258 | Corne | 21 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 381K | listed | Corne | 58 |
| AU Australia | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 230K | — | Corne | 46 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Corne is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In fro, alternative form of corn m (“horn”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, vocative singular of cornus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, dative singular of corn
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, inflection of cornar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Hyacinthe Corneb. 1802FRFrench politician (1802-1887)
- Emma Anderssonb. 1885SEnot in their usual nameSwedish suffragist in Tranås
- Léonce Corneb. 1894FRFrench actor (1894–1977)
- Giuseppe Corneb. 1922ITsentenced to death during the World War II
- Chris Corneb. 1942NZNew Zealand linguist (1942–1999)
- Soizic Corneb. 1946FRjournalist , radio and TV host, producer and painter
- Annie Corneb. 1950FRFrench politician
- Patrick Corneb. 1960FRFrench politician
- Sandrine Corneb. 1969FRFrench politician
- Charlyne Corneb. 1996FRFrench association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Corne come from?
- cuer de roi king’s heart. There is no connection with the name of the fabric, which is not recorded before the 18th cent. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Corne?
- It depends on the language: in French /kɔʁn/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /koɾne/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Corne mean?
- In English, Obsolete spelling of corn.
- In which country does Corne have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Corne in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled corné.
- How common is the name Corne?
- In the United States, the national register counted 479 people named Corne in 2010, about 1 in 694 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Corne?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/corneThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Corne”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.