Cornish Names
Explore names documented in Cornish naming traditions. Compare these spellings using U.S. birth records, which do not measure popularity in other countries.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cornish-rooted name; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1919. | 501#586 | Down 155 rank positions in five years | 1972 | ||
Recorded in Cornish; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1890. | 384#725 | Up 98 rank positions in five years | 1959 | ||
Documented Cornish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1933. | 15#7,280 | Up 83 rank positions in five years | 1974 | ||
Recorded in Cornish; 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 2008. | 1,029#299 | Up 903 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
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 2008. | 341#798 | Up 548 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Cornish; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1880. | 27#4,884 | Up 4,096 rank positions in five years | 1920 | ||
Cornish-rooted name; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1979. | 21#5,787 | Up 1,548 rank positions in five years | 1997 | ||
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 1965. | —Unranked | — | 1971 | ||
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 2003. | 22#5,657 | Down 1,147 rank positions in five years | 2020 | ||
Cornish-rooted name; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1969. | —Unranked | — | 1983 | ||
Recorded in Cornish; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1980. | —Unranked | — | 1989 | ||
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 2003. | —Unranked | — | 2015 | ||
Documented Cornish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2020. | 7#12,767 | Down 5,647 rank positions in five years | 2020 | ||
Documented Cornish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1994. | —Unranked | — | 2002 | ||
Documented Cornish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2012. | —Unranked | — | 2012 | ||
Documented Cornish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2017. | —Unranked | — | 2017 |
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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.