Baby name
REVIVING
🇩🇪 🇳🇱 🇺🇸 Cornelia
/kor · NEE · lee · ah/
Meaning
“Horn”
Latin feminine form of Cornelius, from the Roman Cornelia gens; Cornelia Africana, mother of the Gracchi brothers, was considered the model Roman matron and the ideal of educated Roman womanhood.
Nicknames
cornie · nelia
Vibe
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How it ages.
Stately and historically rich; in the Netherlands it is a genuine classic that never left.
The cultural moment.
Classic in the Netherlands for centuries; reviving modestly in Germany and the US since 2018.