Cornel
Cornel was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 1,174 Americans have been recorded with it between 1919 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cornel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Cornel mean?
Wiktionary, Romanian section
Cornel is “a male given name”
Clipping of Corneliu.
Meaning: Wiktionary, Romanian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Cornel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,204, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
59 babies in 1947, the peak
Cornel peaked in 1947, when 59 boys were given it, #906 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #11,204 | 3.5 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,501 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,569 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 6 | #11,062 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,646 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 7 | #9,881 | 3.6 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,070 | 3.5 |
| 2007 | 6 | #11,181 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,297 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,064 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (86)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 6 | #9,797 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,145 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,730 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 11 | #5,977 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,184 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,704 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,426 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,076 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,001 | 4.7 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,470 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,414 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 11 | #4,928 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 14 | #4,037 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,047 | 4.9 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,126 | 3.0 |
| 1988 | 17 | #3,090 | 8.9 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,047 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,181 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,440 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,266 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,584 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 13 | #3,322 | 7.2 |
| 1981 | 10 | #3,898 | 5.6 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,205 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,608 | 6.4 |
| 1978 | 15 | #2,818 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 12 | #3,229 | 7.3 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,767 | 5.7 |
| 1975 | 10 | #3,484 | 6.4 |
| 1974 | 18 | #2,293 | 11.4 |
| 1973 | 12 | #2,886 | 7.7 |
| 1972 | 14 | #2,556 | 8.6 |
| 1971 | 18 | #2,218 | 10.2 |
| 1970 | 19 | #2,074 | 10.2 |
| 1969 | 20 | #1,870 | 11.2 |
| 1968 | 17 | #1,971 | 9.8 |
| 1967 | 24 | #1,579 | 13.8 |
| 1966 | 17 | #1,904 | 9.5 |
| 1965 | 17 | #1,934 | 9.1 |
| 1964 | 19 | #1,855 | 9.5 |
| 1963 | 16 | #2,055 | 7.9 |
| 1962 | 24 | #1,630 | 11.6 |
| 1961 | 14 | #2,258 | 6.6 |
| 1960 | 25 | #1,627 | 11.7 |
| 1959 | 14 | #2,215 | 6.6 |
| 1958 | 24 | #1,601 | 11.3 |
| 1957 | 21 | #1,761 | 9.7 |
| 1956 | 28 | #1,486 | 13.2 |
| 1955 | 28 | #1,462 | 13.6 |
| 1954 | 16 | #1,970 | 7.8 |
| 1953 | 33 | #1,310 | 16.7 |
| 1952 | 37 | #1,214 | 19.0 |
| 1951 | 32 | #1,305 | 17.0 |
| 1950 | 30 | #1,318 | 16.8 |
| 1949 | 33 | #1,255 | 18.6 |
| 1948 | 47 | #1,024 | 26.8 |
| 1947 | 59 | #906 | 32.2 |
| 1946 | 38 | #1,130 | 23.4 |
| 1945 | 6 | #3,052 | 4.5 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,518 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,638 | 3.5 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,602 | 4.1 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,179 | 5.4 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,625 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 7 | #2,960 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 8 | #2,679 | 7.7 |
| 1935 | 5 | #3,763 | 4.8 |
| 1932 | 5 | #3,877 | 4.8 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,635 | 9.1 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,073 | 4.6 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,268 | 4.5 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,519 | 6.2 |
| 1925 | 7 | #3,472 | 6.3 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,558 | 6.2 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,354 | 4.6 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,284 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cornel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cornel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 86 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cornel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cornel, and how old are they?
An estimated 840 Americans named Cornel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (72% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 39 and 71. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,423 people named Cornel (21 women and girls, 1,402 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 907 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Cornel rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 12,869 babies since 1880, Cornel is the second most given (9.1% 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 Cornel
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 Cornel and names like it
- Compare Cornel and CornellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sCornel peaked in 1947.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cornel since 1910.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Cornel.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Cornel alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.