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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French (Cornély) : from a personal name from Latin Cornelius (see Cornelius). The cathedral of St. Cornelius at Aachen was a center of pilgrimage, and the personal name was especially popular in this area in the Middle Ages.

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