Cornelis
Fewer than 90 men in Poland carry it, and not one boy has been given the name since 2000 at the earliest. It comes from Latin, where the root means "horn".
Cornelis Pronunciation
Cornelis is pronounced tsor-NE-lees (/t͡sɔrˈnɛlis/).
What Cornelis means
Where Cornelis comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Cornelis descends from the Roman family name Cornelius, and behind Cornelius stands the Latin word cornu, a horn. That horn belongs to the name's oldest layer. Roman family names often kept their meanings half-hidden, so the sense of horn reads as inheritance more than description.
Cornelis is the shape the Low Countries gave the Roman name. Cornelis Drebbel, the Dutch inventor, built a navigable submarine on the Thames around 1620. The explorer Cornelis de Houtman reached Java in 1596 on the first Dutch voyage to the East Indies. Both signed the name in full.
Saint Cornelius, a third-century pope and martyr, is remembered on 16 September. A boy entered as Cornelis on a school register wears the Latin plainly. The word underneath is still cornu, horn.
How many people are named Cornelis
1 in 251132 men in Poland is named Cornelis. 85 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3826 among male names.
Cornelis as a middle name
Cornelis is a first name for 85 men in Poland and a middle name for another 125, a 40/60 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 621st, between Deniz (126) and Mathias (125).
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#619 Darius128
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#620 Deniz126
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#621 Cornelis125
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#622 Mathias125
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#623 Nicolás125