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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Hungarian, Polish, and Jewish (from Hungary and Poland) : from korda ‘rope’ (Latin corda ‘rope’). This was used as a nickname in various senses (including ‘monk’, with reference to the rope used by monks as belts). It may also have been a metonymic occupational name for a monk.
  • Czech : from a pet form of the Old Czech personal name Kornel, a vernacular form of Latin Cornelius.

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