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Cornelis

Boys' name

English equivalent of Cornelius

Cornelis has been given to 25 babies in the U.S. since 1946. 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 1946, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Cornelis, 2002

1 in 747,000

Cornelis over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cornelis: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Cornelius

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cornelis means

Cornelis is a English equivalent of Cornelius.

Origin, language, and formation

Cornelis is used in Dutch.

Cornelis comes through Latin Cornēlius.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cornelius.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Cornelis is pronounced /ˌkɔrˈneː.lɪs/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 25 boys were recorded with the name Cornelis between 1946 and 2002. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1946; its best national rank was #3,619 in 1946.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Cornelis?

Cornelis had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2002, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2002
1 in 747,000
5 of 3,737,275 births
Among boys only
1 in 388,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2002
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
518,097 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cornelis 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 2002 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 518,097 children born in 2002 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cornelis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Corneliss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cornelis was born before 1962 — so the typical Cornelis is around 63 today.

Median birth year
1962
About 63 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
20.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
40.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
20
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1940s — 20.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Cornelis 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1946 (5)
Years since peak
79
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#3,619
1946

Spellings of Cornelis

Cornelis is not the most common spelling — Cornelius is, with 68.7% against Cornelis's 0.05%.

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.

Cornelis around the world

Where Cornelis ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1927–1959
    #1,166
    in 1959
  • Canada
    1992–1992
    #1,557
    in 1992
  • South Australia
    1949–1970
    #540
    in 1970

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Cornelis by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,619
1946
Peak year
1946
5 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
2002
All-time count
25
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cornelis

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

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Sibling names for Cornelis

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

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