Cornélis

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/kɔʁneʎi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Cornélis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From older Cornelius, from Latin Cornēlius.

rarermore common
  • 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 Cornélis 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)

353,930 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
181 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 49 (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

CornélisLatin(measured from records)
คอร์เนลThai(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Cornelis in NL Netherlands, US United States, ZA South Africa and 1 more.

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)

From older Cornelius, from Latin Cornēlius.

Sources 2

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cornélis 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.

Where Cornélis is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands#131353,9301 in 49353KCornelis148
ZA South Africa#634≈9,300 est.≈1 in 6.1K—Cornelis49
SE Sweden—1,7681 in 5.8K1.8K—30
US United States—1,423as Cornel1 in 234K1.4KCornelis181
DE Germany—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 76K—Cornelis86
MD Moldova—837as Cornel1 in 4K837——
GY Guyana—51as Cornel1 in 15K51—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; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Cornélis is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Cornelis

  • Spanish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Brazil, United States, Netherlands

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Cornelis, Cornelís

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Netherlands, Malaysia, South Africa

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Cornelis

  • Greek given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, South Africa, Netherlands

    Also written Cornelis, Κορνέλις

  • Danish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Norway

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Cornelis

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

165017001750180018501900Cornelis van der Veken, b. 1666Cornélis de Witt, b. 1828Cornélis Liégeois, b. 1860

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)

FormalMonsieur,Dear Mr Cornélis, (English)
InformalBonjour Cornélis,Hi Cornélis, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.

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

What does the name Cornélis mean, and where does it come from?
From older Cornelius, from Latin Cornēlius. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
How do you pronounce Cornélis?
A machine transcription gives /kɔʁneʎi/ (IPA) for French.
In which country does Cornélis have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 354 thousand people named Cornélis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cornelis.
Where is Cornélis most common?
Cornélis is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 49 people carrying it.
How common is the name Cornélis?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 353,930 people named Cornélis, about 1 in 49 residents.
How common is Cornélis compared with other names?
In the Netherlands, Cornélis is the 131st most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.

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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, “Cornélis” — the 131st most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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