Meaning and formation
Cornejo comes from the Spanish tree name cornejo, “dogwood”. The surname refers to a tree of the genus Cornus. Wency Cornejo sang with AfterImage. His recording of the song “Hanggang” received three Awit awards in 2003.
Dictionary pronunciation
- Tagalog: /koɾˈneho/ · Wiktionary ↗
- Spanish: /koɾˈnexo/ · Wiktionary ↗
In the 1849 Catálogo transcription
The linked transcription records the following spelling and page position. Open the edition link to locate the printed page.
- cornejo · page 33 · column 6 · row 52 · Transcription ↗ · Digitized edition ↗
Public figures with this surname
Elected officials in the 2001 list
Cornejo has 2 records in the OpenHalalan transcription of the 2001 COMELEC elected-candidate lists.
OpenHalalan — 2001 ↗Contains information from OpenHalalan by Robert R. Leung, available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. ODbL 1.0 ↗ · Download surname counts