Kornel

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in Polish: a male given name, equivalent to English Cornelius

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/kornɛl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Kornel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • HUHungary1 in 788(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 2.9K
  • USUnited States1 in 234Kas Cornel

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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)

13,266 people, 2026

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
106 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 788 (inferred from the name graph)

Hungary

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KornelLatin(measured from records)
КорнелCyrillic(measured from records)
კორნელGeorgian(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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

Sources 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.

Where Kornel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland#62213,2661 in 2.9K13KKornel96
HU Hungary#20212,3941 in 78812KKornél106
US United States—1,423as Cornel1 in 234K1.4KKornel94
ES Spain—892as Cornel1 in 56K935Cornel4
MD Moldova—837as Cornel1 in 4K837—2
GY Guyana—51as Cornel1 in 15K51——
IS Iceland—211 in 17K21——

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; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)

Kornel is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Brazil, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Kornél

  • Danish given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Kornél

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Kornél

  • Croatian given name21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Croatia, Serbia, Romania

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Cornell, Cornel, Корнел, Kornél

  • Hindi given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

    Also written Kornél

  • Estonian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Kornél

  • Indonesian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia

    Also written Kornél

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.

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)

18001850190019502000Kornel Jan Krzeczunowicz, b. 1815Kornel Ujejski, b. 1823Kornel Stodola, b. 1866Kornel Makuszynski, b. 1884Kornel Michejda, b. 1887Kornel Filipowicz, b. 1913Kornel Morawiecki, b. 1941Kornel Saláta, b. 1985Kornel Maliszewski, b. 1988Kornel Osyra, b. 1993

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)

InformalSzia Kornel,Hi Kornel, (English)

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)

Attested in 39 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Kornel
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202613K#157
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—13K#158
PL PolandMinistry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present)2019606—
PL PolandMinistry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present)2020574—
PL PolandMinistry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present)2022492—
PL PolandMinistry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present)2021487—
PL PolandMinistry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present)2025471—
PL PolandMinistry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present)2023456—
PL PolandMinistry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present)2024426—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020159#43,063
IS IcelandÞjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry)202621—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20206#43,063

Reference works 4

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

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).
In which country does Kornel have the most bearers?
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.
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.
How do you pronounce Kornel?
A machine transcription gives /kornɛl/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
Is Kornel a male or female name?
Kornel is a male 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 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 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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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 2026-10-10.

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