Cornelius

Cornelius is the 1,828th most common surname in the United States, shared by 19,242 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 15,500.

By the numbers

People: 19,242
Rank: 1,828th
How common: 1 in 15,500
Per 100,000: 6.4

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Cornelius described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 69.9%
Black, not Hispanic 18.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 2.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%

Notable people called Cornelius

Andreas Cornelius (born 1993)Danish footballer
Peter Cornelius (1824–1874)German composer
Derek Cornelius (born 1997)Canadian soccer player
Peter von Cornelius (1783–1867)painter from Germany
Robert Cornelius (1809–1893)American photographer and lamp manufacturer
Don Cornelius (1936–2012)American TV host and producer
Cornelius (born 1969)Japanese singer-songwriter, music producer, composer
Hans Cornelius (1863–1947)German philosopher

People named Cornelius with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Cornelius

Also a first name

Cornelius has been given to 37,049 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1974. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.