🔥Cornelius

Latin

"horn"

Cornelius Origin and Meaning

The name Cornelius is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "horn".

Cornelius, the New Testament name of a third century Pope and saint, is one of those venerable Latin names on the edge of consideration, despite the corny nickname alert.

Cornelius has some magical vibe via Cornelius Agrippa, a medieval alchemist who appears in scores of books, including Frankenstein and Harry Potter. In Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, Cornelius was one of the two magicians who help Faustus strike his bargain with the devil. Two characters of the name appear in Shakespeare's plays—Hamlet and Cymbeline. The most famous bearer of the name is probably railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who gave the appellation an aristocratic air. Cornelius is also the birth name of Chevy Chase.

Cornelius was consistently in the top 1000 through 2008; it was a Top 300 name through 1932.

And if you're put off by the short form Corny, you could consider Neely, the nickname of the young Cornelius in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

Cornelius Rank in US Top 1000

# 988 in the US

Cornelius Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 585 on Nameberry

Cornelius Popularity

• 585 Nameberry 2024
• 893 Unique 2023

20 Names Similar to Cornelius

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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

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