Korda Family History

Hungarian, Polish, Czech, Croatian, Serbian, Slovak, and Jewish (from Poland): from korda ‘rope’ (from Latin corda ‘rope’) used as a nickname in various senses including as a metonymic occupational name for a monk with reference to the rope used by monks as belts. This surname is also found in Slovenia where it is a Slovenized form of Italian Corda. See also below.

Croatian and Serbian: from korda ‘sword, dagger’ used as a nickname or a metonymic occupational name. Czech: from a pet form of the personal name Kornel, an old vernacular form of Latin Cornelius.

Compare Corda Jewish (from Hungary): adoption of the name in 1 above either as a Hungarian calque of the formerly used German-based surname or because the Hungarian surname (or word) has some sounds in common with the original surname.