# Cornelis (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/cornelis/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 25 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 25 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1946 | 5 | 3,620 |
| 1957 | 5 | 4,094 |
| 1962 | 5 | 4,160 |
| 1983 | 5 | 6,422 |
| 2002 | 5 | 10,983 |

## People named Cornelis

- Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Dutch astronomer (1920–2002)
- Cornelis Drebbel, Dutch inventor and submarine pioneer
- Cornelis van Haarlem, Dutch painter (1562-1638)
- Cornelis de Houtman, Dutch explorer
- Cornelis Tromp, Dutch admiral (1629–1691)
- Cornelis de Bruijn, Dutch painter, writer and traveller (1652-1727)
- Cornelis Engebrechtsz., Dutch painter (c.1462–1527)
- Cornelis de Vos, Flemish painter
- Cornelis Cort, Dutch artist (c. 1533–1578)
- Cornelis Lely, Dutch civil servant and politician (1854–1929)
- Cornelis Floris II, Flemish architect, sculptor and print artist (1514–1575)
- Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts, Flemish painter (1640-1675)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.