Cornet
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: cone
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/kɔʁ.nɛ/(recorded in a dictionary) French · from Wiktionary
Cornet is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Belgium it is the 81st most common surname.
- BEBelgium1 in 3.3K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 8.1K
- HTHaiti≈1 in 11K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 274 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from OFr cornet ‘a wind instrument made of horn or resembling a horn’, a diminutive of corn; first attested Durand, Alured cornet 1148 Winton (Ha)
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Cornet is read
(measured from records)Cornet 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.
- French73%
cone
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
De (Le) Cornet, nom de plusieurs localités à travers la France.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
- Spanish11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Cornet in Spanish.
- English10%
from OFr cornet ‘a wind instrument made of horn or resembling a horn’, a diminutive of corn; first attested Durand, Alured cornet 1148 Winton (Ha)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)Cornet 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 | #582 | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | 953 | Cornet | 274 |
| BE Belgium | #81 | 3,532 | 1 in 3.3K | 3.5K | Cornet | 102 |
| HT Haiti | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 953 | 1 in 18K | 953 | Cornet | 30 |
| ES Spain | — | 516 | 1 in 97K | 516 | Cornet | 31 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the ht-potomitan-names register. 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)Cornet 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, synonym of Eiswaffel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, A cornet (musical instrument).
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)- Julius Cornetb. 1793ATAustrian opera singer and theatre director (1793–1860)
- Antoni Gaudíb. 1852ESnot in their usual nameCatalan architect (1852–1926)
- Jules Cornetb. 1865BEBelgian geologist (1865-1929)
- George Thomson Cornetb. 1877GBScottish water polo player (1877-1952)
- Henri Cornetb. 1884FRFrench racing cyclist (1884–1941)
- Manu Cornetb. 1981FRFrench programmer, cartoonist, writer, and musician
- Jan Cornetb. 1982ESSpanish actor
- Alizé Cornetb. 1990FRFrench tennis player
- Philippe Cornetb. 1990CACanadian ice hockey player
- Maxwel Cornetb. 1996CIIvorian footballer (born 1996)
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)31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3.5K | #219 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 3.2K | #241 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 1.3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 1.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 1.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 1.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 976 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 953 | — |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 953 | #1,809 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 874 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 795 | — |
Reference works 6
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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
- Where does the name Cornet come from?
- from OFr cornet ‘a wind instrument made of horn or resembling a horn’, a diminutive of corn; first attested Durand, Alured cornet 1148 Winton (Ha) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Cornet?
- It depends on the language: in French /kɔʁ.nɛ/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /koɾnet/; in English /kɔɹˈnɛt/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Cornet mean?
- In French, cone
- In which country does Cornet have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.5 thousand people named Cornet in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cornet.
- Where is Cornet most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cornet is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 3.3 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cornet?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 3,532 people named Cornet in 2008, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Cornet compared with other names?
- In France, Cornet is the 582nd most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cornetThe 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, “Cornet” — the 582nd most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.