Cornelious
Cornelious is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 493rd, in 1886.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192142 births
- Best rank
- #493in 1886
- Since 1880
- 2,588people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,475 boys have been named Cornelious in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 42 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 42 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1947, and the 1920s alone account for 14%. It has spent 18 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 113 girls have also been given it, 4.4% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Cornelious | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 81 | |
| 1890s | 55 | |
| 1900s | 58 | |
| 1910s | 224 | |
| 1920s | 335 | |
| 1930s | 294 | |
| 1940s | 247 | |
| 1950s | 285 | |
| 1960s | 189 | |
| 1970s | 215 | |
| 1980s | 177 | |
| 1990s | 144 | |
| 2000s | 104 | |
| 2010s | 60 | |
| 2020s | 7 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Cornelious was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1921 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Cornelious
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Gilespeak 1918
- Lemuelpeak 1921
- Irapeak 1947
- Napoleonpeak 1926
- Wileypeak 1921
- Lewispeak 1921
- Georgepeak 1921
- Dellpeak 1953
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.