Cornelissen

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Dutch: a surname originating as a patronymic (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

/ˌkɔrˈneː.lə.sə(n)/(recorded in a dictionary) Dutch · from Wiktionary

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Cornelissen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country: 7,242 people, counted by CBG Familienamenbank in 2007, which ranks it 91st.

  • NLNetherlands1 in 2.4K(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium1 in 8.1K
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 22K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Netherlands (measured from records)

7,242 people, 2007

Record sources
138 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

How to pronounce Cornelissen

  • Dutch:/ˌkɔrˈneː.lə.sə(n)/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Patronymic from Cornelis with weak genitive -en; plate shows weak-genitive patronym formation.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

How Cornelissen is read

(measured from records)

Cornelissen is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Dutch41%

    a surname originating as a patronymic

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English30%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Cornelissen in English.

  • German9.6%

    Patronymic from Cornelis with weak genitive -en; plate shows weak-genitive patronym formation.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen

    Patronym zu Cornelis/Cornelius; 241 Belege. Suffix -sen als niederdeutsche Patronymform.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen

    Patronym zum Rufnamen Cornelius; niederländ./niederdt. -s/-sen-Form, 349 Belege.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

    Familienname aus dem Rufnamen Cornelius; 349 Träger.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where the surname Cornelissen is found

(measured from records)

Cornelissen counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Cornelissen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands#1607,2421 in 2.4K7.2KCornelissen102
ZA South Africa—≈3,000 est.≈1 in 22K—Cornelissen39
BE Belgium—1,4481 in 8.1K1.4KCornelissen66
DE Germany—≈690 est.≈1 in 121K—Cornelissen76
US United States—2631 in 1.3M263Cornelissen138
AU Australia—≈160 est.≈1 in 172K—Cornelissen56

7,242 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Cornelissen is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Netherlands, Brazil, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Cornélissen

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Cornélissen

  • Burmese name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Cornelìssen

29 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
1850190019502000Christiaan Cornelissen, b. 1864Igor Cornelissen, b. 1935Adelinde Cornelissen, b. 1979

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).

How to address them

(machine-generated)
FormalGeachte heer/mevrouw Cornelissen,Dear Cornelissen, (English)
InformalGeachte heer/mevrouw Cornelissen,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Cornelissen come from?
Patronymic from Cornelis with weak genitive -en; plate shows weak-genitive patronym formation. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen.
How do you pronounce Cornelissen?
In Dutch /ˌkɔrˈneː.lə.sə(n)/ (Wiktionary).
What does the name Cornelissen mean?
In Dutch, a surname originating as a patronymic
Which countries have the most people with the surname Cornelissen?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 7.2 thousand people named Cornelissen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cornelissen. After it come South Africa, Belgium, Germany and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Cornelissen most common?
Cornelissen is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.4 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Cornelissen?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 7,242 people named Cornelissen in 2007, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.
How common is Cornelissen compared with other names?
In the Netherlands, Cornelissen is the 160th most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Cornelissen” — ranked 91st in the Netherlands (CBG Familienamenbank, 2007). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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