Cornish is the adjective and demonym associated with Cornwall, the most southwesterly part of the United Kingdom. It may refer to:
Angwin is a Cornish language characteristical surname that means 'the white'. Notable people with the surname include:
Nancarrow is a Cornish surname meaning the "valley of the deer". Notable people with the surname include:
Penna is a surname originating in Italy, in an area known as the Papal States. Since Papal names often denoted place of origin, the Penna family lived in one of several places in Italy named Penna.
Jenkin, of Franconian origin, is translated in English as "Little John" or more literally "John the little".
Michell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Paynter is a surname. It can either be of British origin, meaning "the head/end of the land" in the Cornish language, or it can be of English-language origin, where it is occupational and refers to a painter. It may refer to:
Killigrew is a surname of Cornish origin. Notable people with this surname include:
Tremayne is a Cornish language surname.
Grose is a surname of two possible origins. Cornish origin: a toponymic surname for a person who lived near a stone cross, from Cornish "crows" or "crous" for "cross". French origin: from Old French gros: "big, "fat", a variant of surname Gros.
Nankivell and Nancekivell are surnames. Notable people with these surname include:
Cornish Americans are Americans who describe themselves as having Cornish ancestry, an ethnic group of Brittonic Celts native to Cornwall and the Scilly Isles, part of England in the United Kingdom. Although Cornish ancestry is not recognized on the United States Census, Bernard Deacon at the Institute of Cornish Studies estimates there are close to two million people of Cornish descent in the U.S., compared to half a million in Cornwall itself and only half of those Cornish by descent.
Boase is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Tredinnick is a Cornish surname. It derives from one of the places called Tredinnick; Tredinnick is formed from the elements "tre-" (homestead) and either "dynek" (fortified), "eythynek" or "redynek".
Cornish is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Lander is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Snell is a Cornish surname.
Blight is an English surname. Notable people with this surname include:
Angove is a Cornish surname. This surname originates from the Cornish language, a Celtic language, and is common in Cornwall. The name is a compound of the definite article "an" i.e. the, plus the word "gov", meaning smith, and is thus an equivalent of the English surname Smith. In the 1881 UK census the surname Angove was restricted to Cornwall and the proportion of people with the surname Smith was much lower in Cornwall than elsewhere the UK. The name was originally an occupational name and denoted a metal worker, it is the most common Cornish occupational surname. During the 16th century the surname was limited to the western half of Cornwall where Cornish was still spoken.
Charleston is a given name and a surname.
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