Cornelius

girls:

642 births since 1888

#5074 (11th percentile)

boys:

36.3k births since 1880

#592 (87th percentile)

overall:

36.9k births since 1880

#1300 (83rd percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cornelius".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
642
Peak Births
17
Peak Year
1923
First Recorded
1888
Peak Percentile
2.0%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#282
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
36,254
Peak Births
486
Peak Year
1918
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
55.8%
Current Percentile
8.6%
Peak Rank
#112
Current Rank
#833
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Cornelius

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Cornelius. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 81.3% confident that Cornelius is pronounced as kor-NEEL-yuhs. The next most likely pronunciation is kor-NEE-lee-uhs, at 18.8% confidence.

kor-NEE-lee-uhs (4 syllables)
18.8% confidence
K AO0 R N IY1 L IY0 AH0 S

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Cornelius. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Cornelius, please vote using the thumbs up button.

kor-NEHL-yuhs (3 syllables)
4 names 3k births
K AO0 R N EH1 L Y AH0 S
KOR-NEE-lee-uhs (4 syllables)
4 names 2.6k births
K AO1 R N IY1 L IY0 AH0 S

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like K AO0 R N IY1 L Y AH0 S) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.