Cornelius
A boys’ name of Latin origin, meaning horn; from the Cornelius family.
Cornelius by the numbers
In 2025, 6 babies in England and Wales were named Cornelius. In the US, 106 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 485 babies in 1974, so it is a 1970s name that has since fallen a long way.
Names that come from Cornelius
Forms of Cornelius in other languages, names built from it, and names that mean a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Cornelius. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Names about as common as Cornelius
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