Meaning not yet researched.
Cornell: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 14 in 2025. Its best rank was #478 in 1952.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #478 in 1952; #6,194 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cornell in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,194 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1952, at #478.
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Cornell: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 14 boys in 2025. Peak: #478 in 1952 · most boys in one year: 241 (1962).
In 2025, 14 US boys were named Cornell, making it the 6,194th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,733 places from #4,461 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 23 boys named Cornell in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #478, reached in 1952. The most boys given the name in a single year was 241, in 1962. For comparison, it was #2,610 in 2015 and #542 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cornell in 123 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1890 with 6 babies. In all, 11,695 US babies have been given the name, 3.0% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 2,074 babies named Cornell.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 325 US boys were named Cornell; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 52. In 2025 that was about 1 in 122,005 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Cornel, Corneal and Corneil are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Cornel (1,174), Corneal (27), Corneil (21), Kornell (21), Cornelle (16), Corneall (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Cornell in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 14 | #6,194 |
| 2024 | — | — | 23 | #4,461 |
| 2023 | — | — | 21 | #4,773 |
| 2022 | — | — | 35 | #3,348 |
| 2021 | — | — | 21 | #4,661 |
| 2020 | — | — | 36 | #3,147 |
| 2019 | — | — | 45 | #2,773 |
| 2018 | — | — | 37 | #3,116 |
| 2017 | — | — | 52 | #2,459 |
| 2016 | — | — | 41 | #2,894 |
| 2015 | — | — | 47 | #2,610 |
| 2014 | — | — | 46 | #2,632 |
| 2013 | — | — | 56 | #2,287 |
| 2012 | — | — | 71 | #1,988 |
| 2011 | — | — | 56 | #2,290 |
| 2010 | — | — | 78 | #1,854 |
| 2009 | — | — | 88 | #1,744 |
| 2008 | — | — | 89 | #1,713 |
| 2007 | — | — | 86 | #1,730 |
| 2006 | — | — | 81 | #1,727 |
| 2005 | — | — | 71 | #1,818 |
| 2004 | — | — | 72 | #1,750 |
| 2003 | — | — | 85 | #1,516 |
| 2002 | — | — | 67 | #1,727 |
| 2001 | — | — | 60 | #1,844 |
| 2000 | — | — | 69 | #1,669 |
| 1999 | — | — | 64 | #1,659 |
| 1998 | — | — | 85 | #1,372 |
| 1997 | — | — | 77 | #1,415 |
| 1996 | — | — | 117 | #1,042 |
| 1995 | — | — | 78 | #1,328 |
| 1994 | — | — | 96 | #1,163 |
| 1993 | — | — | 113 | #1,039 |
| 1992 | — | — | 89 | #1,178 |
| 1991 | — | — | 113 | #1,014 |
| 1990 | — | — | 117 | #963 |
| 1989 | — | — | 141 | #846 |
| 1988 | — | — | 141 | #798 |
| 1987 | — | — | 144 | #764 |
| 1986 | — | — | 147 | #750 |
| 1985 | — | — | 135 | #762 |
| 1984 | — | — | 112 | #827 |
| 1983 | — | — | 127 | #774 |
| 1982 | — | — | 118 | #813 |
| 1981 | — | — | 121 | #796 |
| 1980 | — | — | 140 | #741 |
| 1979 | — | — | 135 | #745 |
| 1978 | — | — | 131 | #737 |
| 1977 | — | — | 155 | #679 |
| 1976 | — | — | 134 | #723 |
| 1975 | — | — | 137 | #708 |
| 1974 | — | — | 156 | #645 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,680 | 150 | #649 |
| 1972 | — | — | 147 | #662 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,559 | 175 | #626 |
| 1970 | — | — | 194 | #578 |
| 1969 | — | — | 173 | #592 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,201 | 169 | #582 |
| 1967 | — | — | 173 | #571 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,754 | 175 | #572 |
| 1965 | — | — | 163 | #595 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,579 | 202 | #555 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,403 | 165 | #610 |
| 1962 | 6 | #5,985 | 241 | #508 |
| 1961 | 8 | #4,968 | 168 | #610 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,825 | 144 | #649 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,680 | 194 | #556 |
| 1958 | 7 | #4,989 | 195 | #553 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,603 | 226 | #512 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,119 | 200 | #529 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,822 | 218 | #501 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,253 | 206 | #505 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,822 | 209 | #486 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,937 | 213 | #478 |
| 1951 | — | — | 191 | #490 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,447 | 159 | #542 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,313 | 179 | #494 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,397 | 192 | #480 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,057 | 158 | #537 |
| 1946 | — | — | 130 | #563 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,735 | 72 | #720 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,179 | 65 | #776 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,816 | 50 | #944 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,228 | 62 | #821 |
| 1941 | — | — | 45 | #952 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,483 | 51 | #883 |
| 1939 | — | — | 52 | #846 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,447 | 57 | #820 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,884 | 52 | #848 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,440 | 48 | #883 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,209 | 47 | #923 |
| 1934 | — | — | 53 | #862 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,480 | 60 | #788 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,330 | 51 | #903 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,807 | 57 | #831 |
| 1930 | — | — | 45 | #1,024 |
| 1929 | — | — | 40 | #1,096 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,488 | 45 | #1,033 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,342 | 52 | #966 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,306 | 44 | #1,051 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,421 | 48 | #985 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,454 | 39 | #1,157 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,056 | 50 | #982 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,642 | 50 | #1,001 |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,209 | 43 | #1,071 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,503 | 32 | #1,277 |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,051 | 54 | #909 |
| 1918 | 10 | #3,076 | 36 | #1,157 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,413 | 48 | #922 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,564 | 36 | #1,075 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,570 | 33 | #1,128 |
| 1914 | — | — | 30 | #1,029 |
| 1913 | — | — | 24 | #1,027 |
| 1912 | — | — | 23 | #943 |
| 1911 | — | — | 12 | #995 |
| 1910 | — | — | 14 | #828 |
| 1909 | — | — | 10 | #964 |
| 1908 | — | — | 9 | #963 |
| 1907 | — | — | 7 | #1,121 |
| 1905 | — | — | 6 | #1,127 |
| 1902 | — | — | 5 | #1,179 |
| 1896 | — | — | 5 | #1,131 |
| 1890 | — | — | 6 | #914 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).