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The CORNELIUS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 19,342 1699 0.007 72
United States (1880 census) 3,892 1571 0.008 78
Change since 1880 +15450 -128 -0.001 -6
Other Countries
Australia 518 3105 0.003 32
United Kingdom 1,546 3655 0.003 34
Top States for CORNELIUS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 1,900 1327 0.009 91
California 1,364 2337 0.004 40
Alabama 1,314 571 0.030 295
Florida 1,149 1810 0.007 72
Ohio 921 1473 0.008 81
Top States for CORNELIUS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 1,314 571 0.030 295
Kentucky 568 1034 0.014 141
Oklahoma 429 1100 0.012 124
Mississippi 327 1313 0.011 115
Wisconsin 609 998 0.011 114

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

Classification and Origin of CORNELIUS

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Netherlands

Language of origin: Dutch

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CORNELIUS 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.

Ethnic distribution of CORNELIUS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 514 2.66
Mixed Race 302 1.56
White (Hispanic) 273 1.41
Asian/Pacific 99 0.51
White (Caucasian) 14,547 75.21
Black/African American 3,607 18.65

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

Meaning of CORNELIUS in historical publications

From the Latin cornu, a horn (Greek, ??); and ??, the sun--the horn of the sun.

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


CORNELIUS. The personal name.

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 CORNELIUS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CORNELIUS.

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 CORNELIUS

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