Corliss
Corliss is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 591st, in 1946.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1946182 births
- Best rank
- #591in 1946
- Since 1919
- 3,192people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,849 girls have been named Corliss in the United States since 1919, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1946, with 182 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 182 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1953, and the 1950s alone account for 39%. It has spent 12 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 343 boys have also been given it, 11% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Corliss | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 6 | |
| 1920s | 159 | |
| 1930s | 82 | |
| 1940s | 735 | |
| 1950s | 1,116 | |
| 1960s | 442 | |
| 1970s | 185 | |
| 1980s | 79 | |
| 1990s | 40 | |
| 2000s | 5 |
In 1946, its biggest year
Corliss was the 591st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1946 were Mary, Linda, Patricia, Barbara and Carol. See all of 1946.
Names that rose and fell with Corliss
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Marshapeak 1952
- Glindapeak 1951
- Cathiepeak 1958
- Lindapeak 1947
- Sherrylpeak 1957
- Cherylepeak 1947
- Janispeak 1947
- Kathleenpeak 1951
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.