Cornelious
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cornelious has been given to 2,588 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1921, with 42 recorded.
Babies named Cornelious, 2021
1 in 484,000
Cornelious over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Cornelious?
Cornelious had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2021
- 1 in 484,000
- 7 of 3,389,958 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 250,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2021
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 335,678 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cornelious sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 335,678 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cornelious. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Corneliouss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cornelious was born before 1947 — so the typical Cornelious is around 78 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 13.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 8.7%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,181
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 13.5% of all recorded uses (335).
Is Cornelious 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1921 (42)
- Years since peak
- 104
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 42.2% average annual change
Spellings of Cornelious
Cornelious is not the most common spelling — Cornelius is, with 89.9% against Cornelious's 6.1%.
Where Cornelious is used
Across 1910–2025, Cornelious was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 218,120 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 25,000
- 2Alabama1 in 100,000
- 3Louisiana1 in 100,000
- 4Florida1 in —
- 5Georgia1 in —
- 6Illinois1 in —
- 7North Carolina1 in —
- 8Oklahoma1 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. Cornelious has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Cornelious by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Cornelious
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Cornelious
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Cornelious, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Cornelious
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.