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Kornelia

Girls' name

Form of Cornelia

Kornelia has been given to 59 babies in the U.S. since 2007. 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 2015, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Kornelia, 2024

1 in 669,000

Kornelia over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kornelia: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Cornelia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kornelia means

Kornelia is a form of Cornelia.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Kornelia is used in German and Polish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /kɔʁ.ˈneː.li̯a/ and /kɔr.ˈnɛ.lja/ for Kornelia.

Origin, language, and formation

Kornelia is used in Faroese and Polish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cornelia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Kornelia is pronounced /kɔrˈnɛ.lja/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 59 girls were recorded with the name Kornelia between 2007 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2015; its best national rank was #9,837 in 2015.

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 Kornelia?

Kornelia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kornelia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kornelia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kornelias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kornelia was born before 2015 — so the typical Kornelia is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
74.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
59
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 74.6% of all recorded uses (44).

Is Kornelia 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 2015 (11)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,837
2015

Spellings of Kornelia

Kornelia is not the most common spelling — Cornelia is, with 60.0% against Kornelia's 0.16%.

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 Kornelia is used

Across 1910–2025, Kornelia was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,590,004 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Kornelia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kornelia around the world

Where Kornelia 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.

  • England & Wales
    2004–2025
    #1,719
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2010–2023
    #540
    in 2023
  • Northern Ireland
    2013–2018
    #273
    in 2018
  • Ireland
    2007–2025
    #544
    in 2025
  • France
    2006–2021
    #5,295
    in 2021
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #137
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1972–1972
    #722
    in 1972

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Kornelia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,837
2015
Peak year
2015
11 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
59
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kornelia

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

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Sibling names for Kornelia

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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