Cornelis
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Cornelis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Familienname aus dem Rufnamen Cornelius; 48 Träger.
- NLNetherlands1 in 49(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 6.1K
- DEGermany≈1 in 76K
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 Cornelis 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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 181 (measured from records)
- 1 in 49 (inferred from the name graph)
353,930 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Familienname aus dem Rufnamen Cornelius; 48 Träger.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cornelis 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #131 | 353,930 | 1 in 49 | 353K | Cornelis | 148 |
| ZA South Africa | #634 | ≈9,300 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Cornelis | 49 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,768 | 1 in 5.8K | 1.8K | — | 30 |
| US United States | — | 1,423as Cornel | 1 in 234K | 1.4K | Cornelis | 181 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 76K | 1 | Cornelis | 86 |
| MD Moldova | — | 837as Cornel | 1 in 4K | 837 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 51as Cornel | 1 in 15K | 51 | — | 1 |
353,930 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); e-services.md — living population register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Cornelis is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Patronym zum Rufnamen Cornelius; 48 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Dutch form of CORNELIUS , very common in Holland and South Africa. Short forms: Cor, Niels. Pet forms: Kees, Cees .
as a word
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)
- Cornelis van Haarlemb. 1562NLDutch painter (1562-1638)
- Cornelis de Houtmanb. 1565NLDutch explorer
- Franciscus Cornelis Dondersb. 1818NLDutch ophthalmologist (1818-1889)
- Piet Mondrianb. 1872NLnot in their usual nameDutch painter (1872–1944)
- Kees van Dongenb. 1877NLnot in their usual nameDutch painter (1877-1968)
- M. C. Escherb. 1898NLnot in their usual nameDutch graphic artist (1898–1972)
- Colonel Tom Parkerb. 1909NLnot in their usual nameDutch-American talent manager and concert promoter
- Frans Timmermansb. 1961NLnot in their usual nameDutch politician (born 1961)
- Laidback Lukeb. 1976NLnot in their usual nameDutch DJ and record producer
- Joey Veermanb. 1998NLnot in their usual nameDutch association football player (born 1998)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 52 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 353K | #4 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 128K | #10 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.8K | #1,140 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 1.2K | #1,153 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 707 | #15,884 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 553 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 512 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 481 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 452 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 412 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 379 | — |
| NL Netherlands | SVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered) | 2017 | 152 | #108 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- What are other forms of the name Cornelis?
- In the etymology graph, Cornelius, Kornel and Caj are forms of the same name in other languages; Kai, Niels and Cees are recorded short or pet forms.
- Is Cornelis a male or female name?
- Cornelis is a male 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.
- How common is the name Cornelis?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 353,930 people named Cornelis, about 1 in 49 residents.
- How common is Cornelis compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Cornelis is the 131st most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Cornelis mean?
- Recorded meaning: Familienname aus dem Rufnamen Cornelius; 48 Träger.
- In which country does Cornelis have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 354 thousand people named Cornelis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cornelis.
- Where is Cornelis most common?
- Cornelis is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 49 people carrying it.
What do you want to know about Cornelis?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cornelisThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Cornelis” — the 131st most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.