Kornel
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Polish: a male given name, equivalent to English Cornelius
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/kornɛl/(machine-generated) Hungarian · model-generated
Kornel is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- HUHungary1 in 788(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 2.9K
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 7.5Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kornel itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 106 (measured from records)
- 1 in 788 (inferred from the name graph)
13,266 people, 2026
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hungary
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Kornél in HU Hungary and Cornel in ES Spain.
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.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a male given name, equivalent to English Cornelius
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
How Kornel is read
(measured from records)Kornel is one spelling over 4 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.
- Hungarian28%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kornel in Hungarian.
- Polish27%
a male given name, equivalent to English Cornelius
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Cornell
as a namePolish Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 24)
- English14%
Czech/Polish: 'a horn'
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- German7.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kornel in German.
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 in the world
(measured from records)Kornel 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #622 | 13,266 | 1 in 2.9K | 13K | Kornel | 96 |
| HU Hungary | #202 | 12,394 | 1 in 788 | 12K | Kornél | 106 |
| US United States | — | 1,423as Cornel | 1 in 234K | 1.4K | Kornel | 94 |
| ES Spain | — | 892as Cornel | 1 in 56K | 935 | Cornel | 4 |
| MD Moldova | — | 837as Cornel | 1 in 4K | 837 | — | 2 |
| SK Slovakia | #542 | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | — | Kornel | 36 |
| GY Guyana | — | 51as Cornel | 1 in 15K | 51 | — | — |
13,266 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); e-services.md — living population register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Kornel is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Polish and Czech form of CORNELIUS . Variants: Polish: Korneli, Korneliusz .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Kornel Makuszynskib. 1884PLPolish writer (1884–1953)
- Kornel Morawieckib. 1941PLPolish politician (1941-2019)
- Kornel Salátab. 1985SKSlovak footballer
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)39 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kornel mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Cornelius Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Kornel?
- In the etymology graph, Cornelius, Cornelio and Cornelis are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Kornel?
- It depends on the language: in Hungarian /kornɛl/; in Polish /ˈkɔr.nɛl/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people named Kornel?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Kornel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kornel. After it come Hungary, United States, Spain and Moldova; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Kornel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kornel is densest in Hungary — about 1 in 788 people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- Is Kornel a male or female name?
- Kornel is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026), Norway (SSB) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- How common is the name Kornel?
- In Poland, the national register counted 13,266 people named Kornel in 2026, about 1 in 2.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Kornel compared with other names?
- In Poland, Kornel is the 622nd most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kornelThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Kornel” — the 622nd most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.