Kornelija
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kornelija/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kornelija is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 4.9K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 706as Kornelia
- DEGermany≈1 in 820as Cornelia
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kornelija itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 353 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈98,000 named Cornelia, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Cornelia in DE Germany, ZA South Africa, SE Sweden and 3 more and Kornelia in PL Poland.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kornelija 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #183 | ≈98,000 est. | ≈1 in 820 | — | Cornelia | 236 |
| PL Poland | #332 | 54,209as Kornelia | 1 in 706 | 54K | Kornelia | 118 |
| ZA South Africa | #274 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Cornelia | 57 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 986 | — | Cornelia | 40 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 9K | — | Cornelia | 36 |
| SE Sweden | #283 | 10,916as Cornelia | 1 in 935 | 11K | Cornelia | 73 |
| AT Austria | #150 | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 936 | 5.7K | Cornelia | 133 |
| HR Croatia | #560 | 863 | 1 in 4.9K | 863 | Kornelija | 37 |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)
Kornelija is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Kornelija Sertićb. 1897HRCroatian scholar
- Kornelija Kalinauskaitėb. 1925LTLithuanian violinist
- Kornelija Kvesićb. 1963HRCroatian basketball player
- Kornelija Ičinb. 1964RSSerbian literary scholar
- Kornelija Šinković Pavićevićb. 1964RSSerbian sprinter
- Korneliya Ninovab. 1969BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian politician
- Kornelija Ajlecb. 1984SISlovene historian
- Kornelija Zaicevaitėb. 1999LTLithuanian wrestler
- Korneliya Bozhanovanot in their usual nameactress
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 863 | #581 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 783 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 34 | #17,563 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 29 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 29 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 27 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 24 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 23 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 22 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 21 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 19 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 19 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- How do you pronounce Kornelija?
- A machine transcription gives /kornelija/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- Is Kornelija a male or female name?
- Kornelija is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Kornelija?
- In the etymology graph, Cornelia, Kornelia and Nele are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Kornelija have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 98 thousand people named Cornelia in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kornelija most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kornelija is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 4.9 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kornelija?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 863 people named Kornelija in 2021, about 1 in 4.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Kornelija compared with other names?
- In Germany, Kornelija is the 183rd most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kornelija?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kornelijaThe 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, “Kornelija” — the 183rd most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.