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Kornelia

Latin at root, from the Roman clan Cornelius and the word cornu, "horn". It rings familiar in Poland and still lands on birth certificates today, sitting comfortably inside the top 200 for girls.

Kornelia Pronunciation

Kornelia is pronounced kor-NEL-yah (/kɔrˈnɛlja/).

Related names
Cornelius Kornel
Alive in 2025
52,638
Newborns 2025
1,595
National rank
#183
Next name day
31 March
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What Kornelia means

Where Kornelia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Kornelia comes from Latin, from Cornelius, the name of one of ancient Rome's great clans. Its root is cornu, the Latin word for horn, which is why the short meaning fixed to the name is horn, or in Polish róg. The older Latin spelling survives in the variant Cornelia.

Rome remembers a Cornelia already. Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, was praised for calling her sons her jewels, and her name stood for a certain Roman dignity. The masculine form is Kornel, and it reached Polish letters through Kornel Makuszyński, who wrote the adventures of Koziołek Matołek for generations of children.

Poland began recording Kornelia around 1770, and the name settled in with a softer everyday shape, the diminutive Nela. Its imieniny falls on 31 March. Read a school register that week and a Kornelia may well be sitting a few rows from a Nela, both names tracing back to one Latin horn, cornu.

When Kornelia celebrates name day

Kornelia appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 31 March.

Next name day
31 March
Wednesday in 2027
Next one in 202 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

How many people are named Kornelia

1 in 428 women in Poland is named Kornelia. 52,638 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #183 among female names.

People with the name Kornelia 2019 → 2025
52,638 +10,848 since 2019
2020 43,027 +1,237
2021 45,151 +2,124
2022 47,230 +2,079
2023 49,171 +1,941
2024 50,889 +1,718
2025 52,638 +1,749

Kornelia's popularity over time

1,595 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #50 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2000.

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1,595 newborns with the name Kornelia in 2025
national rank #50 that year

Where Kornelia is most popular

Kornelia is most popular in Łódź, 30% above the national average (1,037 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Kuyavian-Pomeranian (+24%) and Lublin (+24%). It is least common in Opole and Silesian, 69% and 33% below average respectively.

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Kornelia as a middle name

Kornelia is a first name for 52,638 women in Poland and a middle name for another 9,850, an 84/16 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 111th, between Eliza (10,077) and Honorata (9,820).

As a first name
52,638
As a middle name
9,850
first name 84% middle name 16%
Middle-name ranking women

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