Cornelius
Cornelius is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 68 births. Its best rank was 130th, in 1882.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 680.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1974486 births
- Best rank
- #130in 1882
- Since 1880
- 36,324people given the name
The story in the numbers
36,324 boys have been named Cornelius in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1974, with 486 births.
The name has all but left use: 68 births in 2024, against 486 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1957, and the 1980s alone account for 11%. It has spent 129 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Cornelius | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 911 | |
| 1890s | 853 | |
| 1900s | 956 | |
| 1910s | 3,066 | |
| 1920s | 4,021 | |
| 1930s | 3,122 | |
| 1940s | 2,733 | |
| 1950s | 3,216 | |
| 1960s | 2,775 | |
| 1970s | 3,975 | |
| 1980s | 4,080 | |
| 1990s | 2,891 | |
| 2000s | 1,923 | |
| 2010s | 1,360 | |
| 2020s | 442 |
In 1974, its biggest year
Cornelius was the 346th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1974 were Michael, Jason, Christopher, David and James. See all of 1974.
Names that rose and fell with Cornelius
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Reubenpeak 1920
- Napoleonpeak 1926
- Amospeak 1922
- Richmondpeak 1921
- Alonzapeak 1961
- Frankpeak 1918
- Benpeak 1918
- Antonpeak 1915
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.