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The first name 
Cornelia

Cornelia is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.

When two girls called Cornelia meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Cornelia is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Cornelia. In the SmartGenius ranking, Cornelia is #3,806 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Cornelia.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Cornelia

Cornelia -
evergreen, but special

For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Cornelia annualy. This means that there have been girls named Cornelia who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Cornelia have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Cornelia even more than any other time: in 1880, it holds its present record of rank #144 in the list of the most popular girls' names.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Cornelia was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

How popular was Cornelia 2022 among young parents?

Cornelia has never been ranked higher than #144. In 2022, she rivaled the 3,504 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 37 girls named Cornelia were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Cornelia were born, there have been 41 newborns who received this name.

Cornelia has 8 letters 
and begins with a C

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.

With eight letters, the name Cornelia is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.

Other names with 
C, o, r, n, e, l, i and a

If you take all the letters in the name Cornelia – C, o, r, n, e, l, i and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Coraline or Caroline.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Cornelia

If your name is Cornelia and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Cornelia

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Cornelia, you can simply say:

Cat

Orange

Rocket

Nut

Elephant

Lion

Igloo

Apple

This is how the name Cornelia is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Cornelia in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Cornelia

Cornelia

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Cornelia

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Cornelia is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

C
O
R
N
E
L
I
A

Have you ever waved the name Cornelia

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

C
O
R
N
E
L
I
A

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Cornelia sounds like this: