Cornwall

Cornwall is the 11,793rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,540 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 118,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,540
Rank: 11,793rd
How common: 1 in 118,000
Per 100,000: 0.85

Where the name comes from

From Middle English Cornwaile, Cornwayle, a modification of Cornwale (after Old French Cornuaille), from Old English Cornwēalas (“Cornwall, inhabitants of Cornwall”), from Proto-Celtic *kornu (“horn”) + Old English wealh (“stranger, foreigner”). Compare Wales/Welsh, Walloon, Gaul.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 69.8%
Black, not Hispanic 20.4%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Cornwall

Barry Cornwall (1787–1874)English poet
Anne Cornwall (1897–1980)American actress

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

Surnames like Cornwall

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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.