Cornelio
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Cornelius (biblical character) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- Brazil (IBGE): listed as male
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male
- Venezuela (asosab): listed as female
- Ecuador (INEC, 2024): listed as male
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 29 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/koɾˈne.ljo/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Cornelio is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country.
- MXMexico≈1 in 4.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 5.3K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 5.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 204 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈28,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mexico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Cornelio
- Spanish:/koɾˈne.ljo/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Portuguese:/kuɾnelju/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Cornelius (biblical character)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cornelio 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #591 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | 204 | Cornelio | 117 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | 15K | Cornelio | 51 |
| PE Peru | #797 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | Cornelio | 53 |
| US United States | — | 3,724 | 1 in 89K | 3.7K | Cornelio | 204 |
| AR Argentina | #921 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 748 | Cornelio | 39 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #355 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Cornelio | 31 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Cornelio | 13 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | 5 | — | 14 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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)Cornelio is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, Latino; nome di antica gens romana, forse da Cornus o dalla città di Corne.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, Cognome di una illustre gente romana. probabil- mente non d a cornus, m a dalla città di Corne. S. Cornelio, Papa e martire, 252; 16 setteiiihre. S. Cornelio. centurioiie, convertito d a S. Pietro, e martire sotto Tiberio; 2 febbraio. Nome non molto usato; esiste in Piemonte il cognome
as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
In Italian, forma italiana de Cornelius
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Corno del sole
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Latin, dative/ablative singular of Cornēlius
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)- Cornelio Bentivogliob. 1668ITCatholic cardinal (1668-1732)
- Cornelio Saavedrab. 1759ARPlatian general (1759-1828)
- Cornelio Sommarugab. 1932CHSwiss diplomat and president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (1932-2024)
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)61 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 29 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cornelio mean, and where does it come from?
- Cornelius (biblical character) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Cornelio?
- In the etymology graph, Cornelius, Cees and Kornel are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Cornelio?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /koɾˈne.ljo/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /kuɾnelju/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Cornelio a male or female name?
- Cornelio is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: Brazil (IBGE): listed as male; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male; Venezuela (asosab): listed as female; Ecuador (INEC, 2024): listed as male. We don't publish a percentage split.
- Which countries have the most people named Cornelio?
- Mondonomo estimates about 28 thousand people named Cornelio in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cornelio. After it come Philippines, Peru, United States and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Cornelio?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,724 people named Cornelio in 2020, about 1 in 89 thousand residents.
- How common is Cornelio compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Cornelio is the 591st most common given name of 193,485 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cornelioThe 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, “Cornelio” — ranked 327th in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.