girls:
22k births since 1880
#963 (83rd percentile)
boys:
26 births since 1925
#4560 (1st percentile)
overall:
22k births since 1880
#1717 (78th percentile)
The name Cornelia is the #1,717 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 22,010 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 77.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 77.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #963 (83.2% percentile) for all time with 21,984 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,560 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 26 births since 1925.
Cornelia has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1925 for boys).
The name Cornelia has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Cornelia reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 53.7% percentile (ranked #266) with 428 births per million. The name was most common in 1883, with 966 births per million (ranked 41.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Cornelia ranks #900 for girls (5.0% percentile) with 30 births per million, which is 3.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Cornelia reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #543) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1925, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1963.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cornelia".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Cornelia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.6% confident that Cornelia is pronounced as kor-NEEL-yuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kor-NEE-lee-uh, at 24.4% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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