How Many People Are Named Cornel?
people named Cornel are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 400,685 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,174 babies named Cornel in Social Security records from 1919 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
59 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Romanian form of CORNELIUS.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Cornel in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Cornel alive today is about 53 years old, and 44% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 38 and 70 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Cornel first appears in the records in 1919 and was given most often in 1947, to 59 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.
Babies given the name each year, 1919 to 2024
🏆 Rank History
Cornel has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #906, in 1947.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #906 (1947) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,513 in the 1950s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Cornel alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Cornel were born in California than in any other state: about 20 of those alive today.
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