Cornelia is a Latin name, the feminine of the great Roman family name Cornelius, likely rooted in cornu, a horn. It carries the gravity of the classical world.
Its most famous bearer was Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, remembered in Rome as a model of virtue who called her sons her jewels. The name has echoed with dignity ever since.
Stately, vintage and quietly grand, Cornelia is a classic ripe for rediscovery.
Cornelia does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Cornelia reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.