Cornellia
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cornellia has been given to 37 babies in the U.S. since 1925. 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 1949, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Cornellia, 1977
1 in 529,000
Cornellia 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Cornellia?
Cornellia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1977, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1977
- 1 in 529,000
- 6 of 3,176,294 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 256,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1977
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 366,941 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cornellia sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1977 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 366,941 children born in 1977 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cornellia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Cornellias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cornellia was born before 1949 — so the typical Cornellia is around 76 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 35.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 32.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 12
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 35.1% of all recorded uses (13).
Is Cornellia 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 1949 (8)
- Years since peak
- 76
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 60.0% average annual change
Spellings of Cornellia
Cornellia is not the most common spelling — Cornelia is, with 63.0% against Cornellia's 0.11%.
Cornellia around the world
Where Cornellia 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.
- France1995–1997#3,085in 1997
- South Australia1956–1956#540in 1956
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Cornellia by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Cornellia
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cornellia
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.