🔥Cornelius

Latin

"horn"

Cornelius Origin and Meaning

Variation of Cornel

Cornelius Rank in US Top 1000

# 988 in the US

Cornelius Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 740 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Cornelius

• 740 Nameberry 2025
• 893 Unique 2023

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Famous People Named Cornelius

• Saint Cornelius the Centurion first Gentile to convert to Christianity
• Saint Cornelius Archbishop of Armagh
• Cornelius Vanderbilt American industrialist
• Cornelius Crane "Chevy" Chase American actor/comedian
• Cornelius Harvey McGillicuddy I IV aka Connie Mack, American baseball players and politicians
• Cornelius Nepos ancient Roman biographer
• Cornelius Castoriadis Greek,French philosopher
• Cornelius Ingram American football player
• Cornelius Coward English cricketer
• Cornelius Packard "Dusty" Rhoads American pathologist and oncologist
• Cornelius "Neil" Casey Irish,American footballer
• Christopher Cornelius "Kit" Culkin American actor and father of Macaulay Culkin
• Cornelius Elven (1797 1873), hymnist
• Anton Cornelius "Neels" Visser instagram star

The name Cornelius in Pop Culture

• Yukon Cornelius character in animated special "Rudolph, the Red,Nosed Reindeer"
• Cornelius "Cory" Matthews main character on TV's "Boy Meets World"
• Cornelius Hickey character in book and TV series "The Terror"
• Kornelius "Kojo" Jonesworth character on TV's Zeke and Luther"
• Cornelius Fudge former Minister of Magic from "Harry Potter" series
• Cornelius the fairy prince in the 1994 animated film "Thumbelina"
• Publius Cornelius Dolabella character in Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra"
• Cornelius "Neeley" Nolan character in Betty Smith's novel "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"
• Cornelius the narrator in Chuck Palahniuk's novel "Fight Club"
• Cornelius character in the Planet of the Apes film series
• Cornelius an old elephant counsellor, from the Babar the Elephant series
• Cornelius Coot character in the Scrooge McDuck universe
• Cornelius Fillmore character in the animated series Fillmore!
• Gibby Cornelius Gibson character on TV's iCarly
• Cornelius Hackl character in The Matchmaker and musical Hello, Dolly!
• Lewis "Cornelius" Robinson character in Disney's "Meet the Robinsons"
• Cornelius Stirk character in DC Comics
• Cornelius Austerlin the stepdad in Lene Kaaberbøl's Katriona series

International Variations of the name Cornelius

• Krelis Dutch
• Kornel Czech
• Korneliusz Polish
• Corneille French
• Cornelio Spanish
• Cornelis Dutch
• Kees Dutch