Name: Cornelis
Gender: Male
Usage: Cornelis, of latin origin, is not a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Cornelis are in general originating from Belgium, Netherlands, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Cornelis across the world, see Cees.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Cornelis is: Horn, Horned.
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Numerology of the first name Cornelis: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 5. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: adventurous, energetic, curious, visionary, magnetic, expansive.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Extroverted, Adventurous
Ruling planet: Mercury
Colors: White, Gray
Gemstones: Diamond
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The name Cornelis is ranked on the 36,920th position of the most used names. It means that this name is rarely used.
We estimate that there are at least 4900 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.001% of the population. The name Cornelis has eight characters. It means that it is relatively long-length, compared to the other names in our database.
We do not have enough data to display the number of people who were given the name Cornelis for each year.
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History and Origin
Cornelis is a Dutch form of the male given name Cornelius. Some common shortened versions of Cornelis in Dutch are Cees, Cor, Corné, Corneel, Crelis, Kees, Neel and Nelis.
Cornelis (Kees) and Johannes (Jan) used to be the most common given names in the Low Countries, and the origin of the term Yankees is commonly thought to derive from the term Jan-Kees for the Dutch settlers in New Netherland.
Some of the better known people named Cornelis were:
- Cornelis Engebrechtsz (c. 1462 – 1527), painter from Leiden
- Cornelis Floris de Vriendt (1513/14-1575), architect and sculptor.
- Cornelis Cort (c. 1533 – 1578), engraver and draughtsman
- Cornelis Corneliszoon (c. 1550 – 1607), inventor of the wind powered sawmill
- Cornelis van Haarlem (1562–1638), leading Northern Mannerist painter
- Cornelis de Houtman (1565–1599), explorer who started the Dutch spice trade
- Cornelis Drebbel (1572–1633), builder of the first navigable submarine
- Cornelis de Vos (1584–1651), Flemish Baroque painter
- Cornelis de Graeff (1599–1664), Golden Age polician
- Cornelis Evertsen the Elder (1610–1666, 1628–1679, 1642–1706), three admirals in the Anglo-Dutch Wars
- Cornelis de Witt (1623–1672), politician of the Dutch Republic
- Cornelis Tromp (1629–1691), admiral in the Anglo-Dutch Wars and in the Scanian War
- Cornelis Pietersz Bega (1631/32-1664), painter and engraver
- Cornelis de Bruijn (1652–1726/27), artist and traveler
- Cornelis Cruys (1655–1727), first commander of the Russian Baltic Fleet
- Cornelis Dusart (1660–1704), genre painter, draftsman, and printmaker
- Cornelis M.H. (born 1953), governor of West Kalimantan, Indonesia
- Cornelis de Pauw (1739–1849), philosopher, geographer and diplomat
- Cornelis Tiele (1830–1902), theologian and scholar
- Cornelis Lely (1854–1929), civil engineer and statesman
- Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven (1873–1932), South African writer and poet
- Cornelis Bernardus van Niel (1897–1985), microbiologist
- Cornelis Berkhouwer (1919–1992), President of the European Parliament 1973-75
- Cornelis van Beverloo (1922–2010), artist better known under his pseudonym "Corneille"
- Cornelis Vreeswijk (1937–1987), Dutch-Swedish singer, poet and actor
Dutch form of Cornelius, very common in Holland and South Africa.
Short forms: Cor, Niels.
Pet forms: Kees, Cees.
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