Girls' name · since 1954
Cornetta
Cornetta has 32 recorded births since 1954 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1987 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #40,142 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 32
- born since 1954
- 1980s
- peak decade
Cornetta is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 32 have been recorded since 1954.
Cornetta has 32 recorded births among girls since 1954, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1954 to 1989.
- #40,142 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 32 born since 1954
- 1980s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Cornetta ranks #40,142 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 32 born since 1954, peaking in the 1980s.
- #40,142 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 32
- born since 1954
- 1980s
- peak decade
Cornetta's 32 recorded births place it above 44.13% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Cornetta's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Cornetta's full recorded timeline at 1983, 53% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 47% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1954, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1987 peak of 7 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Cornetta popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1954–1989
- Peak year (1987)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 36 years of records
Cornetta by decade
1980s is the heaviest window (17 births, 53% of the file).
1980s was Cornetta's strongest decade.
17 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 53% of all-time use.
Cornetta births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1950s 5
1950s
5 births
- 1960s 5
1960s
5 births
- 1970s 5
1970s
5 births
- 1980s
1980s
17 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 17 births (53% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Cornetta: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1987)
Similar record span (~35 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1954–1989 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Cornetta draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.