Boy
Cornelius
As a boy's name, Cornelius is understood to mean "horn". It is not as common as it was in the 1980s, though it has not disappeared. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. It has appeared in U.S. birth records in nearly every decade since 1900, a genuinely long run.
LatinLatin "cornu"
EtymologyMeaning "horn"
Births by decade
1900s
991
1910s
3,137
1920s
4,142
1930s
3,200
1940s
2,780
1950s
3,272
1960s
2,830
1970s
4,046
1980s
4,150
1990s
2,896
2000s
1,922
2010s
1,158
Peaked in the 1980s · 34,524 total U.S. births since 1900