Cornish Boy Names
Explore names documented in Cornish naming traditions. Compare these spellings using U.S. birth records, which do not measure popularity in other countries. This focused selection includes only sourced names with matching U.S. birth records; many other names used in this tradition are absent from the U.S. data.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Documented Cornish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1946. | 1,103#309 | Down 127 rank positions in five years | 2008 | ||
Documented Cornish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1880. | 532#559 | Up 136 rank positions in five years | 1995 | ||
Documented Cornish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1910. | 219#1,023 | Down 142 rank positions in five years | 1991 | ||
Recorded in Cornish; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1924. | 12#7,128 | Down 1,469 rank positions in five years | 1953 | ||
Documented Cornish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1947. | 22#4,613 | Up 516 rank positions in five years | 1989 | ||
Documented Cornish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1923. | 98#1,678 | Up 515 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Documented Cornish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1971. | 43#2,931 | Up 710 rank positions in five years | 1992 | ||
Documented Cornish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1894. | —Unranked | — | 1975 | ||
Recorded in Cornish; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1976. | 20#4,903 | Up 614 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
Documented Cornish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1907. | —Unranked | — | 1919 | ||
Documented Cornish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1977. | 11#7,397 | Up 2,636 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Documented Cornish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1980. | —Unranked | — | 1997 | ||
Documented Cornish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1935. | —Unranked | — | 2011 | ||
Documented Cornish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1972. | 24#4,326 | Up 5,815 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Documented Cornish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2003. | —Unranked | — | 2015 | ||
Documented Cornish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1983. | 8#9,535 | Up 852 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Documented Cornish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1998. | —Unranked | — | 2000 | ||
Documented Cornish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1983. | —Unranked | — | 1983 | ||
Documented Cornish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2009. | —Unranked | — | 2009 |
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Sources & methodology
Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.
Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.