Kornelia

given name · Latin script

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

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

Kornelia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Latin Cornēlia.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 706(measured from records)
  • DEGermany≈1 in 820as Cornelia
  • SESweden1 in 935as Cornelia

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 Kornelia 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.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈98,000 named Cornelia, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
353 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 706 (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

CorneliaLatin(measured from records)
ΚορνηλιαGreek(measured from records)
КорнелијаCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Cornelia in DE Germany, ZA South Africa, SE Sweden and 3 more.

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)

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(measured from records)

Kornelia 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 Kornelia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany#183≈98,000 est.≈1 in 8201Cornelia236
PL Poland#33254,2091 in 70654KKornelia118
ZA South Africa#274≈29,000 est.≈1 in 2K—Cornelia57
RO Romania—≈22,000 est.≈1 in 986—Cornelia40
PH Philippines—≈12,000 est.≈1 in 9K—Cornelia36
SE Sweden#28310,916as Cornelia1 in 93511KCornelia73
AT Austria#150≈9,500 est.≈1 in 9365.7KCornelia133

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: the de-leipzig-vornamen register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)

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

  • German given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Austria, United Kingdom

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Kornélia, Kornelìa

  • Swedish given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, United States

    Languages: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish

    Also written Kornélia

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States, Kenya

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Kornélia

  • Hungarian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, Slovakia, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hungarian, Slovak

    Also written Kornélia, Kornèlia, Kornêlia

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Korneliâ, Kornēlia, Kornélia

  • Italian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy

    Also written Kornélia

  • Romanian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, Spain

    Also written Kornélia

26 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)

19401960198020002020Kornelia Boje, b. 1942Kornelia Ender, b. 1958Kornelia Kunisch, b. 1959Kornelia Wehlan, b. 1961Kornelia Greßler, b. 1970Małgorzata Łakota-Micker, b. 1980Kornelia Wróblewska, b. 1982Kornelia Fiedkiewicz, b. 2001Kornelia Lesiewicz, b. 2003

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)

InformalHallo Kornelia,Hi Kornelia, (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 52 sources across 27 countries.

Official registers attesting Kornelia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—54K#92
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202654K#92
PL PolandMinistry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present)20251.6K—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—554#2,574
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020291—
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)2024202#552
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present)20248#576
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20264#20,835
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3#21,350
DE GermanyStadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene20241#1
DE GermanyStadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene20121—
PL PolandMinistry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present)2026——

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 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Kornelia have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 98 thousand people named Cornelia in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Kornelia most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kornelia is densest in Poland — about 1 in 706 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
What does the name Kornelia mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Latin Cornēlia. Recorded by Wiktionary and Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon and 2 other sources.
What are other forms of the name Kornelia?
In the etymology graph, Cornelia, Nela and Lieke are forms of the same name in other languages; Nele is a recorded short or pet form.
How do you pronounce Kornelia?
A machine transcription gives /kʰɔʁnelɪa/ (IPA) for German.
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.
How common is the name Kornelia?
In Poland, the national register counted 54,209 people named Kornelia in 2026, about 1 in 706 residents.
How common is Kornelia compared with other names?
In Germany, Kornelia is the 183rd most common given name of 156,202 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, “Kornelia” — the 183rd most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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