Cornelio

#6,525 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Cornelius

Cornelio has been given to 1,600 babies in the U.S. since 1911. In 2025 it ranked #6,525 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1989, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Cornelio, 2025

1 in 255,000

Cornelio over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cornelio: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Cornelius

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cornelio means

Cornelio is a form of Cornelius.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Cornelio → Cornelius. The family’s proposed meaning is “horn”, recorded in the naming reference for Cornelius.

Origin, language, and formation

Cornelio is used in Italian and Spanish.

Cornelio comes through Latin Cornēlius.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cornelius.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Cornelio is pronounced /korˈnɛ.ljo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,600 boys were recorded with the name Cornelio between 1911 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 30 in 1989; its best national rank was #1,428 in 1947.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,197 in 2020 to #6,525 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Cornelio?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 255,000; 13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 131,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #6,525; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 176,762 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Cornelio sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cornelio. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cornelios were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cornelio was born before 1977 — so the typical Cornelio is around 48 today.

Median birth year: 1977; About 48 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 13.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 20.7%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 1,194; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 13.7% of all recorded uses (219).

Is Cornelio rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: +3,573; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +1,672; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 43.3%; Peak was 1989 (30)
Years since peak: 36; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 27.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,428; 1947

Spellings of Cornelio

Cornelio is not the most common spelling — Cornelius is, with 68.7% against Cornelio's 3.0%.

Cornelius68.7%36,407
Cornell21.4%11,347
Cornelious4.7%2,475
Cornelio3.0%1,600
Cornel2.2%1,174

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Cornelio is used

Across 1910–2025, Cornelio was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 54,790 across all states with data. It was least common in Arizona (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Texas1 in 33,333
2California1 in 100,000
3New Mexico1 in 100,000
4Arizona1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Cornelio has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cornelio by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #6,525
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 1,672
Best rank ever: #1,428; 1947
Peak year: 1989; 30 that year
First recorded: 1911
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 1,600
Count in 2025: 13

Names similar to Cornelio

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Cortland Cordero Corbett Cordarius Virgilio Cortney Corben Corrie Cordale Eulalio Basilio Corleone Corbyn Corvin Corinthian Rosalio Corban Cormac Corrado Cecilio Corby Cordae Corwin Rojelio

Sibling names for Cornelio

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Lissette Yessenia Kristyn Stefani Monika Britany Janay Kyle

For a brother

Kelsey Garrick Laron Arron Whitney Jarred Antwon Jerrell

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