Corney
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Person from Corney’, Cumbria or Hertfordshire, from a place name meaning ‘island where cranes are seen’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkɔɹni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Corney is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- AUAustralia
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘Person from Corney’, Cumbria or Hertfordshire, from a place name meaning ‘island where cranes are seen’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Corney is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Corney (Hertfordshire, Cumberland); first attested Benedict de Corneye 1260 AssC
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, and Herts., so called from OE com corn, grain or corn, a metathesized form of cron, cran Crane + eg island. It seems possible, from the distribution of early forms, that it may also derive from a lost place in Lancs. Corley see Curley Cornfeld see Korn Cormack Scots: Anglicized form of the Gael, personal name Cormac, composed of the elements corb raven + mac son.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, and Herts., so called from OE com corn, grain or com, a Cornford metathesized form of cron, cran Crane + eg island. It seems possible, from the distribution of early forms, that it may also derive from a lost place in Lancs. Cory 124 Ashkenazic, ornamental): Kroin (from Yid. kroyn crown, Krojn (Pol. spelling). Dim.: Jewish Kroinik. Pej.: Fr.: Couronnaud.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, A small settlement in Waberthwaite and Corney parish, Copeland borough, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD1191).
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)
- Bolton Glanvill Corneyb. 1851English surgeon, government medical officer in Fiji, geographer, 1851-1924
- Camille Corneyb. 1883FRFrench theater director and actor
- Ed Corneyb. 1933USAmerican bodybuilder
- Daniel Tammetb. 1979GBnot in their usual nameBritish writer, mathematician, essayist and autistic savant
- Trent Corneyb. 1993CAprofessional Canadian footballer
- Emma Corneyb. 2004English cricketer
- Ransome Kyle Tyrone CorneyGBresearcher
- Francisco CorneyUYUruguayan writer
- David Corneyresearcher
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)
Attested in 19 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 652 | #33,090 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 620 | #38,417 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 594 | #37,492 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 82 | #31,712 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 82 | #31,586 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 24 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #162,448 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Corney mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Person from Corney’, Cumbria or Hertfordshire, from a place name meaning ‘island where cranes are seen’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Corney?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɔɹni/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Corney have the most bearers?
- Corney is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Corney”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.