Family name origins & meanings
- Hungarian, Polish, and Jewish (from Hungary and Poland) : from korda ‘rope’ (Latin corda ‘rope’). This was used as a nickname in various senses (including ‘monk’, with reference to the rope used by monks as belts). It may also have been a metonymic occupational name for a monk.
- Czech : from a pet form of the Old Czech personal name Kornel, a vernacular form of Latin Cornelius.