Cornelia (given name)
Cornelia is a feminine given name. It is a feminine form of the name Cornelius or Cornelis. Nel, Nele, Nelly, Corey, Cornie, Lia, or Nelia can be used as a shortened version of Cornelia. Conny, Connie, Nele, or Neele are popular German short forms used in their own right. Lia and Corrie are diminutive versions of the Dutch name.
It also has the alternate spellings of Kornelia, Korneliya, and Cornélia.
Origin
In ancient Rome, Cornelia was the nomen gentilicium of women born into the gens Cornelia. This gens was widespread and some notable members of it include; Cornelia Africana, Cornelia and Cornelia Salonina.Women with the name
- Cornelia van Cortlandt, the mother of General Philip Schuyler and grandmother of Angelica, and Eliza, the wife of General Alexander Hamilton, 1st Secretary of the Treasury, a Founding Father, as well as others
- Cornelia Bargmann, American neurobiologist
- Cornelia "Conny" van Bentum, Dutch swimmer
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- Cornelia "Corrie" ten Boom, Dutch World War II resistance member
- Cornelia Bouhon, Dutch actress, singer, dancer
- Cornelia "Kea" Bouman, Dutch tennis player
- Cornelia Bürki, Swiss long-distance runner
- Cornelia Brandolini d'Adda, Italian fashion director
- Cornelia Clapp, American zoologist and marine biologist
- Cornelia Denz, German physicist
- Cornelia Hubertina "Neel" Doff, Dutch-Belgian writer
- Cornelia Dow, American philanthropist, temperance activist
- Cornelia Druțu, Romanian mathematician
- Cornelia Dumler, German volleyball player
- Cornelia Ecker, Austrian politician
- Cornelia Elgood, British physician
- Cornelia Emilian, Romanian women's activist
- Cornelia Keeble Ewing, American clubwoman
- Cornelia Fabri, Italian mathematician
- Cornelia Cole Fairbanks, Second Lady of the United States and President General of the NSDAR
- Cornelia Frances, English-Australian actress
- Cornelia Froboess, German actress and singer
- Cornelia Füeg, Swiss politician
- Cornelia Funke, German children's writer
- Cornelia Ghijben, Dutch actress and singer
- Cornelia Gillyard, American chair of Spellman chemistry department
- Cornelia Deaderick Glenn, First Lady of North Carolina
- Cornelia Nycke Groot, Dutch handball player
- Cornelia Gröschel, German actress
- Cornelia Hanisch, German fencer
- Cornelia Hermina van Harreveld-Lako
v, Dutch botanist - Cornelia Collins Hussey, American philanthropist, writer
- Cornelia Hütter, Austrian alpine skier
- Cornelia Jakobs Swedish singer
- Cornelia Hall Jones, Hawaiian philanthropist and co-founder of the Daughters of Hawaii
- Cornelia Jane Matthews Jordan, American poet, lyricist
- Cornelia "Corrie" Laddé, Dutch swimmer
- Cornelia Catharina de Lange, Dutch pediatrician
- Cornelia Lister, Swedish tennis player
- Cornelia van Marle, Dutch painter
- Cornelia F. Maury, American pastel artist
- Cornelia van Meijgaard, Dutch actress, singer, and cabaretière known as "Conny Stuart"
- Cornelia van der Mijn, Dutch lower painter
- Cornelia "Cora" van Nieuwenhuizen, Dutch politician, MEP
- Cornelia van Nijenroode, Dutch merchant in the Dutch East Indies
- Cornelia Alice Norris, American socialite and genealogist
- Cornelia "Keetie" van Oosten-Hage, Dutch cyclist
- Cornelia Oschkenat, East German hurdler
- Cornelia Parker, British artist
- Cornelia Pieper, German politician
- Cornelia Polit, East German backstroke swimmer
- Cornelia "Conny" Pröll, Austrian alpine skier
- Cornelia Holroyd Bradley Richards, American author
- Cornelia de Rijck, Dutch painter
- Cornelia Scheffer, Dutch painter and portrait miniaturist
- Cornélia Scheffer, French designer and sculptor, grand-daughter of the former
- Cornelia Schlosser, sister of Johann von Goethe
- Cornelia Schmachtenberg, German politician
- Cornelia Sharpe, American former actress and model
- Cornelia Otis Skinner, American actress, humorist, and playwright
- Cornelia Sollfrank, German digital artist and early pioneer of Net Art and cyberfeminism
- Cornelia Sorabji, Indian lawyer, social reformer and writer
- Cornelia Laws St. John, American poet
- Cornelia Ștefănescu, Romanian literary critic and historian
- Cornelia Branch Stone, president-general, United Daughters of the Confederacy; president, Texas Woman's Press Association
- Cornelia Strong, American mathematician and astronomer
- Cornelia Tăutu, Romanian composer
- Cornelia Toppen, Dutch Orangist and the instigator of the 1784 riots of Rotterdam
- Cornelia van der Veer, Dutch poet
- W. Cornelia "Cornélie" van Zanten, Dutch opera singer, singing teacher and author
Fictional characters
- Cornelia Hale, the Guardian of Earth in the W.I.T.C.H. comics and TV series
- Blair Cornelia Waldorf, a fictional character in the TV-series Gossip Girl
- Cornelia li Britannia, a fictional character in the anime series Code Geass
- Cornelia, fictional character from the book and film Sune's Summer
- Cornelia Arnim, a royal mage and a major antagonist in Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes
- Cornelia Elliot née Bryant, a fictional character in the book series ''Anne of Green Gables''