girls:
113 births since 1904
#5603 (2nd percentile)
boys:
2.5k births since 1880
#2540 (45th percentile)
overall:
2.6k births since 1880
#5265 (32nd percentile)
The name Cornelious is the #5,265 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,588 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 32.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 32.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,540 (44.6% percentile) for all time with 2,475 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,603 (1.9% percentile) for all time with 113 births since 1904.
Cornelious has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1904 for girls). Birth data for Cornelious is available in 133 out of the 142 years between 1880 and 2021 (133 years for boys and 16 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Cornelious has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Cornelious reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 6.7% percentile (ranked #513) with 37 births per million. The name was most common in 1886, with 118 births per million (ranked 4.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
For girls, Cornelious reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #584) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 21 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1949.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cornelious".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Cornelious", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 9 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Cornelius" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Cornelius..
Our model has identified 9 different pronunciations for the name Cornelious. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 24.6% confident that Cornelious is pronounced as kor-NEE-lee-uhs, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kor-NEEL-yuhs, at 19.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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