Corlis — unisex name

What the Data Says About Corlis

The Social Security Administration has registered 483 babies named Corlis between 1945 and 1966, spanning 22 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Corlis currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1966. The name reached its historical peak in 1957, when 56 babies received it in a single year. Corlis is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 32 additional births since 1918.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Corlis performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 368 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Corlis shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 18 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Louisiana and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Corlis in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Corlis in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 483 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.