# Corliss (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/corliss/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,192 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 343 / 2,849 (89% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 10 | 6,420 |
| 1982 | 10 | 6,447 |
| 1983 | 12 | 5,524 |
| 1984 | 5 | 10,736 |
| 1986 | 8 | 7,904 |
| 1987 | 5 | 11,670 |
| 1988 | 6 | 10,649 |
| 1989 | 8 | 8,924 |
| 1990 | 8 | 9,445 |
| 1992 | 7 | 10,728 |
| 1993 | 9 | 8,877 |
| 1994 | 5 | 13,895 |
| 1996 | 6 | 12,168 |
| 1998 | 5 | 14,648 |
| 2003 | 5 | 16,316 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1935 | 9 | 2,569 |
| 1936 | 7 | 2,925 |
| 1937 | 13 | 2,014 |
| 1939 | 7 | 2,881 |
| 1940 | 5 | 3,551 |
| 1943 | 8 | 2,775 |
| 1946 | 5 | 3,619 |
| 1947 | 6 | 3,436 |
| 1951 | 5 | 3,818 |
| 1955 | 6 | 3,569 |
| 1957 | 6 | 3,639 |
| 1960 | 7 | 3,399 |
| 1994 | 22 | 3,129 |
| 1995 | 17 | 3,724 |
| 1996 | 5 | 9,266 |

## People named Corliss

- Corliss Williamson, American basketball player (born 1973)
- Corliss Lamont, American activist (1902–1995)
- Corliss Palmer, American actress (1899-1952)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.