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cornwall Name Meaning and History

  1. regional name from the county of Cornwall, which is named with the Old English tribal name Cornwealas. This is from Kernow (the term that the Cornish used to refer to themselves, a word of uncertain etymology, perhaps connected with a Celtic element meaning ‘horn’, ‘headland’), + Old English wealas ‘strangers’, ‘foreigners’, the term used by the Anglo-Saxons for British-speaking people.
  2. variant of Cornwell.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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cornwall Family Facts

Distribution of cornwall Families in the US in 1920
Number of cornwall families
 42-81
 15-41		 1-14
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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