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Cornel - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Cornel

[ 2 syll. cor-nel, co-rn-el ] The boy name Cornel is pronounced as KAORNahL KEY. Cornel is primarily used in English, German, and Romanian. It is of Latin origin. Cornel is a variant form of the Dutch, English, and German name Cornelius.

Cornel is an uncommon baby boy name. At the modest height of its usage in 1947, 0.003% of baby boys were named Cornel. It was #909 in rank then. The baby name has slipped in popularity since then, and is now of irregular use. In 2008, within the family of boy names directly related to Cornel, the Dutch, English, and German Cornelius was the most frequently used.

Baby names that sound like Cornel include the English Cornall, the Czech, Polish, and Slavic Kornel, the Hungarian Kornél, the English and Hebrew Carmel, the French Corneille, the English Cornell, the name Karmel, the Spanish Carmelo, the Romanian Corneliu, the Polish Korneli, the Italian and Spanish Cornelio, and the Portuguese Cornélio.

KEY: Pronunciation for Cornel: K as in "key (K.IY)" ; AO as in "ought (AO.T)" ; R as in "read (R.IY.D)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)"


 
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