The Cornutt Name: Records, Origin and Blazon

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Cornutt, so the heraldry linked to Cornett is a starting point, not an automatic right.

Family name meaning

In parish registers, Cornutt often stands in for Cornett. Name scholars give the meaning as “Horn player / little corner”.

Spelled with “u” instead of “e”, Cornutt shows how the same name was heard and written differently. The same family of names includes Cornet. The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Cornutt with 219 bearers, at rank 85,357. That is enough to place it in the top 100,000 American surnames.

Get the complete Cornutt report, with a museum-style coat of arms.