Cornell (name)

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Cornell is an English surname and given derived from a shortened form of Cornwall, Cornwell or Cornhill, [1] and also a Dutch surname. Sometimes the name is an Americanized form of the Czech Kornel or the German and Swedish Kornell. In Dutch, and sometimes in English, the name derives from the Latin gens Cornelia, one of the most famous tribes in ancient republican Rome, to whom Publio Cornelio Scipio belonged. The name of the tribe survives in Italy as Corneli or Cornelli.

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  1. "Cornell Name Meaning & Cornell Family History". Ancestry. Retrieved 2023-09-08.