Corliss
Corliss was last recorded in 2003, when 5 babies were given it; 3,192 Americans have been recorded with it between 1913 and 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,090 Americans named Corliss and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (66% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 63 and 76.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Corliss by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Corliss mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Corliss is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Corliss?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,309, in 2003; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
187 babies in 1946, the peak
Corliss peaked in 1946, when 187 babies were given it (182 girls, #591 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 5 | #16,309 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,641 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,162 | 5 | #9,259 |
| 1995 | under 5 | 17 | #3,718 | |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,889 | 22 | #3,123 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,871 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,721 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,439 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,918 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,644 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (83)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 5 | #11,665 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,900 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,731 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,523 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,445 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,418 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,770 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,149 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,723 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,633 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,192 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,908 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,889 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,138 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,562 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 28 | #2,607 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 37 | #2,170 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 29 | #2,408 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 21 | #2,804 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 29 | #2,223 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 26 | #2,361 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 38 | #1,860 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 47 | #1,688 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 56 | #1,491 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 60 | #1,432 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 60 | #1,436 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 76 | #1,253 | 7 | #3,398 |
| 1959 | 81 | #1,183 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 61 | #1,350 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 66 | #1,305 | 6 | #3,638 |
| 1956 | 129 | #877 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 137 | #826 | 6 | #3,568 |
| 1954 | 108 | #928 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 113 | #886 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 145 | #735 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 139 | #744 | 5 | #3,817 |
| 1950 | 137 | #732 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | 80 | #1,006 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 123 | #772 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 142 | #710 | 6 | #3,434 |
| 1946 | 182 | #591 | 5 | #3,618 |
| 1945 | 80 | #843 | under 5 | |
| 1944 | 70 | #918 | under 5 | |
| 1943 | 44 | #1,215 | 8 | #2,774 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,050 | under 5 | |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,269 | 5 | #3,550 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,374 | 7 | #2,881 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,519 | under 5 | |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,771 | 13 | #2,014 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,314 | 7 | #2,924 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,206 | 9 | #2,569 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,776 | 5 | #3,779 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,167 | 7 | #3,067 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,388 | 11 | #2,351 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,022 | 5 | #3,879 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,728 | 7 | #3,352 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,169 | 9 | #2,805 |
| 1928 | 10 | #2,988 | 10 | #2,694 |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,276 | 10 | #2,738 |
| 1926 | 24 | #1,732 | 7 | #3,450 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,396 | 7 | #3,471 |
| 1924 | 30 | #1,538 | 18 | #1,909 |
| 1923 | 25 | #1,688 | 15 | #2,142 |
| 1922 | 21 | #1,909 | 9 | #3,061 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,581 | 11 | #2,662 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,500 | 12 | #2,489 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,360 | 9 | #2,920 |
| 1918 | under 5 | 9 | #2,920 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 14 | #2,107 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 13 | #2,171 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 8 | #2,872 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 10 | #2,136 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 9 | #1,977 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Corliss a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,192 Americans recorded as Corliss, 89% are girls and 11% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Corliss: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Corliss, and how old are they?
2,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 66% of the 3,192 Americans ever recorded as Corliss. The median Corliss alive today is 71 years old; half are between 63 and 76.
The 2020 Census counted 2,268 people named Corliss (2,069 women and girls, 199 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,333 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 146 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,480 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 316 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 139 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 10 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Corliss born?
The states with the most babies named Corliss are Illinois, California and Louisiana, with 35% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 152 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 131 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 115 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Texas | 103 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 102 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New York | 89 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 85 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 61 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Missouri | 52 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 37 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Corliss is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Corliss is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1913 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Corliss with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 3,707 babies since 1880, Corliss is the most given (86% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Corliss
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Corliss and names like it
- Compare Corliss and CorlisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sCorliss peaked in 1946.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Corliss since 1910.
- The top names of 1946The year the most babies were named Corliss.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Corliss alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.