Cornell
Cornell is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 23 births. Its best rank was 478th, in 1952.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 230.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1962241 births
- Best rank
- #478in 1952
- Since 1890
- 11,681people given the name
The story in the numbers
11,333 boys have been named Cornell in the United States since 1890, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1962, with 241 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1967, and the 1950s alone account for 18%. It has spent 71 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 348 girls have also been given it, 3.0% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Cornell | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 11 | |
| 1900s | 37 | |
| 1910s | 310 | |
| 1920s | 443 | |
| 1930s | 522 | |
| 1940s | 1,004 | |
| 1950s | 2,011 | |
| 1960s | 1,773 | |
| 1970s | 1,514 | |
| 1980s | 1,326 | |
| 1990s | 949 | |
| 2000s | 768 | |
| 2010s | 529 | |
| 2020s | 136 |
In 1962, its biggest year
Cornell was the 508th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1962 were Michael, David, John, James and Robert. See all of 1962.
Names that rose and fell with Cornell
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Michelpeak 1957
- Carnellpeak 1958
- Rancepeak 1962
- Reginaldpeak 1962
- Lionellpeak 1960
- Phillippeak 1960
- Bradfordpeak 1953
- Davidpeak 1955
Other spellings in the data
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.