Cornelia
Cornelia is a female given name .
Origin and meaning
In Roman antiquity, Cornelia was the gentile name (“surname”) of the female members of the Cornelier family , so to speak “the Cornelian”. The male form of the name is Cornelius .
name day
- March 31st , Saint Cornelia (around 300)
- September 16 , Cornelius (Bishop of Rome)
Minor forms
Name derivatives from Kornelia or Cornelia are Coco, Conni, Connie, Conny, Konni, Corny, Cola, Ela, Lia, Nela, Nele , Neele, Neli, Nelia, Nella and Nelly .
Well-known namesake
- Cornelia, mother of the Gracches (190-100 BC)
- Cornelia (wife of Caesar) (94–69 / 68 BC), first wife of Gaius Iulius Caesar
- Cornelia (wife of Calvisius) († 39 AD), Roman nobleman
- Cornelia (Vestal Virgin) († ~ 91 AD), Roman nobleman and Vestal Virgin
- Cornelia Schlosser (1750–1777), younger sister of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Cornelia ("Corrie") ten Boom (1892–1983), Dutch Christian, as well as persecuted and deported Jewish rescuer during the Nazi era, who traveled around the world after 1945 for the message of forgiveness, reconciliation and a loving God.
- Cornelia Froboess (* 1943), German actress
- Cornelia Hanisch (* 1952), German fencer
- Cornelia Horz (* 1957), President of the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court
- Cornelia Bürki (* 1953), Swiss athlete
- Cornelia Funke (* 1958), German author for children and young people
- Cornelia Pieper (* 1959), German politician
- Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen (* 1934), German politician (FDP)
- Cornelia Stolze (* 1966), German author and science journalist
- Cornelia Poletto (* 1971), German cook
- Cornelia Schindler (* 1970), German actress