Kornelia
given name · Polish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kornelia is a given name, most frequently recorded in Germany. In the Netherlands it is the 8th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Polish and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Latin Cornēlia.
- ATAustria1 in 659◐
- PLPoland1 in 706
- DEGermany1 in 831
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈86K ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 309 ●
- 1 in 706 ◐
across 12 countries
recorded for this name
342K records
Official registry-verified
Poland
Spellings & scripts●
2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Cornelia in NL Netherlands, DE Germany, US United States and 18 more, Kornelija in HR Croatia, Корнелія in UA Ukraine and Корнелия in RU Russia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Borrowed from Latin Cornēlia.
Sources 4
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Polish Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 24)
- Nordic Names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #186 | 145,880 | 131K rec. | — | 1 | Cornelia | 222 |
| PL Poland | #180 | 54,205△ | 3.9K rec. | 1 in 706 | 54K | Kornelia | 113 |
| AT Austria | #137 | 25,114 | 4.6K rec. | — | 5.7K | Cornelia | 127 |
| ZA South Africa | #260 | 12,136 | 12K rec. | — | — | Cornelia | 54 |
| SE Sweden | #283 | 10,916△ | 4K rec. | 1 in 935 | 11K | Cornelia | 59 |
| US United States | — | 10,606 | 132K rec. | 1 in 31K | 11K | Cornelia | 309 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 7,107 | 7.4K rec. | — | 6 | Cornelia | 89 |
| UA Ukraine | #593 | 5,975 | 6.4K rec. | — | — | Корнелія | 22 |
| CH Switzerland | #124 | 5,150 | 3.5K rec. | — | — | Cornelia | 97 |
| PH Philippines | — | 4,699 | 5.5K rec. | — | — | Cornelia | 30 |
| AU Australia | — | 4,618 | 4.4K rec. | — | 3 | Cornelia | 92 |
| NL Netherlands | #8 | 2,681 | 3.5K rec. | 1 in 6.4K | 106K | Cornelia | 68 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Polish243K82%
- German29K10%
- English6.2K2%
- Western Frisian4.1K1%
- Dutch3K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Polish | 242,566 | 82% |
| German | 29,340 | 10% |
| English | 6,243 | 2% |
| Western Frisian | 4,085 | 1% |
| Dutch | 3,042 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1988 | 4 |
| 1989 | 4 |
| 1994 | 6 |
| 1995 | 9 |
| 1996 | 8 |
| 1998 | 11 |
| 1999 | 9 |
| 2000 | 11 |
| 2002 | 4 |
| 2003 | 12 |
| 2004 | 14 |
| 2005 | 15 |
| 2006 | 15 |
| 2007 | 12 |
| 2008 | 22 |
| 2009 | 19 |
| 2010 | 27 |
| 2011 | 29 |
| 2012 | 26 |
| 2013 | 26 |
| 2014 | 20 |
| 2015 | 45 |
| 2016 | 33 |
| 2017 | 25 |
| 2018 | 36 |
| 2019 | 41 |
| 2020 | 31 |
| 2021 | 20 |
| 2022 | 29 |
| 2023 | 28 |
| 2024 | 27 |
| 2025 | 40 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 32 years between 1988–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Kornelia Bojeb. 1942DEGerman actress
- Kornelia Enderb. 1958DEEast German swimmer
- Kornelia Kunischb. 1959DEGerman handball player
- Kornelia Wehlanb. 1961DEGerman politician
- Kornelia Greßlerb. 1970DEEast German swimmer
- Małgorzata Łakota-Mickerb. 1980PLnot in their usual namePolish political scientist
- Kornelia Wróblewskab. 1982PLPolish theologian and journalist
- Kornelia Fiedkiewiczb. 2001PLPolish swimmer
- Kornelia Lesiewiczb. 2003PLPolish sprinter
- Kornelia HorvathGBBritish actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 50 sources across 27 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 338 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kornelia?
- We estimate roughly 86 thousand people bear Kornelia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Kornelia have the most bearers?
- Kornelia is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled cornelia.
- How common is Kornelia compared with other names?
- In Germany, Kornelia is the 186th most common given name of 154,506 given names recorded there.
- Is Kornelia a male or female name?
- Kornelia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Kornelia mean?
- Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Latin Cornēlia.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kornelia” — the 186th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.