The CORNELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	21,060	1566	0.008	78
United States (1880 census)	7,941	756	0.016	159
Change since 1880	+13119	-810	-0.008	-81
Other Countries
Australia	908	1804	0.006	56
United Kingdom	2,237	2685	0.005	49

Top States for CORNELL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	2,210	767	0.012	116
California	1,844	1771	0.005	54
Michigan	1,445	705	0.015	145
Ohio	1,404	925	0.012	124
Florida	1,388	1479	0.009	87
Top States for CORNELL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	143	689	0.023	235
Rhode Island	204	683	0.019	195
Michigan	1,445	705	0.015	145
West Virginia	250	1094	0.014	138
Wisconsin	732	759	0.014	136

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of CORNELL

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 CORNELL 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 CORNELL 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 CORNELL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	933	4.43
White (Hispanic)	413	1.96
Mixed Race	303	1.44
Asian/Pacific	145	0.69
Native American/Alaskan	114	0.54
White (Caucasian)	19,152	90.94

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

Similar names to CORNELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CORNELL.

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.