Corliss — unisex name

What the Data Says About Corliss

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,849 babies named Corliss between 1919 and 2003, spanning 85 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Corliss currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2003. The name reached its historical peak in 1946, when 182 babies received it in a single year. Corliss is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 343 additional births since 1913.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Corliss performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 1,116 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Corliss shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 152 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Louisiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Corliss in 24 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Corliss 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 2,849 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.