Korda Family History
Korda Name Meaning
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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022