Cornish

7,676 people in the United States were counted with the surname Cornish in the 2020 census, making it the 4,485th most common in the country. That is about one person in 38,900.

By the numbers

People: 7,676
Rank: 4,485th
How common: 1 in 38,900
Per 100,000: 2.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English, from an ethnonym

from Cornish Kernewek, Kernowek.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 60.7%
Black, not Hispanic 29.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Cornish

Abbie Cornish (born 1982)Australian actress
Joe Cornish (born 1968)British comedian, television and radio presenter, director, writer and actor
Thomas Cornish (born 2000)Australian cyclist

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

Surnames like Cornish

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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.