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The CORNISH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,887 4160 0.003 29
United States (1880 census) 2,823 2166 0.006 56
Change since 1880 +5064 -1994 -0.003 -27
Other Countries
Australia 2,058 784 0.013 126
United Kingdom 4,810 1308 0.01 105
Top States for CORNISH by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maryland 784 808 0.015 148
New York 754 2735 0.004 40
Texas 528 4370 0.003 25
California 516 5899 0.002 15
Pennsylvania 478 3437 0.004 39
Top States for CORNISH by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 145 1017 0.019 185
Maryland 784 808 0.015 148
Maine 135 1843 0.011 106
Kentucky 325 1870 0.008 80
Washington DC 34 1922 0.006 59

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CORNISH live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CORNISH represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CORNISH in Maryland than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CORNISH by picking someone at random in Delaware than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CORNISH

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CORNISH surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the CORNISH surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CORNISH in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 151 1.91
White (Hispanic) 130 1.65
Native American/Alaskan 43 0.55
Asian/Pacific 37 0.47
White (Caucasian) 5,158 65.4
Black/African American 2,368 30.02

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CORNISH surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of CORNISH in historical publications

(origin: Local) Belonging to Cornwall, indicating the place from which the family came.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


CORNISH. Belonging to Cornwall— applied originall}' to one who had removed from that to another county. A family so called at St. Issey in Cornwall, "originally descended from one William Cornish, who settled here temp. Queen Mary, a Welshman.''' D. Gilbert's Cornw., ii. 255.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to CORNISH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CORNISH.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CORNISH

The following words are slight variants of CORNISH that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.