Cornelio
Cornelio was given to 13 boys in 2025, #6,525 among boys’ names; 1,600 Americans have been recorded with it since 1911 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,160 Americans named Cornelio and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (73% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 23 and 54.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cornelio by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Cornelio mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Cornelio is “a male given name, equivalent to English Cornelius”
From Latin Cornēlius.
/koɾˈneljo/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Cornelio?
#6,525 among boys’ names, 2025
Cornelio entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #6,525 in 2025.
30 babies in 1989, the peak
Cornelio peaked in 1989, when 30 boys were given it, #2,250 among boys’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,525 | 7.6 |
| 2024 | 7 | #10,098 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 6 | #11,091 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 10 | #7,872 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,183 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,197 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,743 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,771 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 7 | #9,891 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,234 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (110)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 17 | #5,292 | 8.9 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,683 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 16 | #5,515 | 8.4 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,716 | 7.9 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,287 | 8.9 |
| 2009 | 14 | #6,153 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 20 | #4,746 | 9.8 |
| 2007 | 16 | #5,478 | 7.7 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,574 | 7.3 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,620 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 25 | #3,650 | 12.6 |
| 2003 | 17 | #4,636 | 8.6 |
| 2002 | 22 | #3,803 | 11.3 |
| 2001 | 15 | #4,922 | 7.7 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,332 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 17 | #4,182 | 8.9 |
| 1998 | 18 | #3,867 | 9.4 |
| 1997 | 19 | #3,614 | 10.1 |
| 1996 | 20 | #3,417 | 10.6 |
| 1995 | 29 | #2,561 | 15.2 |
| 1994 | 24 | #2,952 | 12.4 |
| 1993 | 22 | #3,061 | 11.2 |
| 1992 | 20 | #3,238 | 10.0 |
| 1991 | 21 | #3,009 | 10.4 |
| 1990 | 29 | #2,376 | 14.1 |
| 1989 | 30 | #2,250 | 15.0 |
| 1988 | 15 | #3,379 | 7.8 |
| 1987 | 15 | #3,222 | 8.0 |
| 1986 | 19 | #2,698 | 10.3 |
| 1985 | 12 | #3,631 | 6.5 |
| 1984 | 20 | #2,445 | 11.1 |
| 1983 | 20 | #2,422 | 11.2 |
| 1982 | 14 | #3,137 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 17 | #2,694 | 9.5 |
| 1980 | 21 | #2,378 | 11.8 |
| 1979 | 26 | #2,000 | 15.1 |
| 1978 | 18 | #2,494 | 11.0 |
| 1977 | 14 | #2,934 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 21 | #2,186 | 13.4 |
| 1975 | 25 | #1,898 | 16.0 |
| 1974 | 20 | #2,138 | 12.7 |
| 1973 | 28 | #1,662 | 18.0 |
| 1972 | 18 | #2,173 | 11.1 |
| 1971 | 28 | #1,676 | 15.8 |
| 1970 | 14 | #2,528 | 7.5 |
| 1969 | 11 | #2,721 | 6.2 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,764 | 3.5 |
| 1967 | 14 | #2,160 | 8.0 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,299 | 3.9 |
| 1965 | 16 | #1,994 | 8.6 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,675 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 15 | #2,127 | 7.4 |
| 1962 | 14 | #2,206 | 6.8 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,417 | 3.3 |
| 1960 | 15 | #2,143 | 7.0 |
| 1959 | 13 | #2,321 | 6.1 |
| 1958 | 14 | #2,192 | 6.6 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,671 | 4.6 |
| 1956 | 10 | #2,655 | 4.7 |
| 1955 | 19 | #1,798 | 9.2 |
| 1954 | 7 | #3,217 | 3.4 |
| 1953 | 16 | #1,974 | 8.1 |
| 1952 | 12 | #2,270 | 6.2 |
| 1951 | 9 | #2,698 | 4.8 |
| 1950 | 15 | #1,955 | 8.4 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,140 | 7.3 |
| 1948 | 19 | #1,718 | 10.8 |
| 1947 | 27 | #1,428 | 14.8 |
| 1946 | 10 | #2,429 | 6.2 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,029 | 8.9 |
| 1944 | 8 | #2,673 | 5.9 |
| 1943 | 18 | #1,712 | 12.6 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,752 | 5.8 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,231 | 9.0 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,209 | 9.5 |
| 1939 | 16 | #1,733 | 14.5 |
| 1938 | 7 | #2,919 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,523 | 8.4 |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,654 | 16.4 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,055 | 12.5 |
| 1934 | 14 | #1,952 | 13.6 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,246 | 11.1 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,121 | 12.5 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,122 | 12.5 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,073 | 7.3 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,341 | 11.2 |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,419 | 10.8 |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,060 | 14.2 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,452 | 10.8 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,334 | 11.6 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,371 | 11.5 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,472 | 10.9 |
| 1922 | 10 | #2,845 | 9.2 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,521 | 10.9 |
| 1920 | 6 | #3,916 | 5.6 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,471 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,438 | 6.9 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,101 | 5.4 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,582 | 6.7 |
| 1911 | 5 | #1,792 | 22.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cornelio a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cornelio has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 110 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cornelio: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cornelio, and how old are they?
1,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 73% of the 1,600 Americans ever recorded as Cornelio. The median Cornelio alive today is 38 years old; half are between 23 and 54.
The 2020 Census counted 3,724 people named Cornelio (11 women and girls, 3,713 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,183 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 41 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 162 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 255 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 311 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 268 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 124 |
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 Cornelio born?
The states with the most babies named Cornelio are Texas, California and New Mexico, with 99% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Mexico is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 345 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| California | 260 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| New Mexico | 8 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Cornelio is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cornelio is most over-represented in Texas: since 1911 it was given 2.9 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 boys’ 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 Cornelio with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Cornelio
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 Cornelio and names like it
- Compare Cornelio and FelicianoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sCornelio peaked in 1989.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cornelio since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Cornelio: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Cornelio.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Cornelio alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.