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    The surname Cornelison

    A surname, carried by 3,617 people in the United States.

    4 syllables Soundex C654

    Cornelison: #9,033 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Cornelison #9,033, 3,617 people Cornelison: #9,033 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Cornelison #9,033, 3,617 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cornelison is more common than 94.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,617 people named Cornelison in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 85,360 Americans. That is up 2.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,547.

    #9,033
    rank among US surnames
    3,617
    people in 2010
    1.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2%
    change since 2000 (was #8,551)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #9,027Baptista3,62185,265
    #9,029Barthel3,62085,289
    #9,030Chai3,61985,312
    #9,033Skeens3,61785,360
    #9,037Delay3,61685,383

    Who is named Cornelison

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    91% of people named Cornelison identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.1% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 91%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Cornelison

    Cornelison has the Soundex code C654, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C654.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Cornelison?
    3,617 people in the United States had the surname Cornelison in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 85,360 Americans. It ranked 9,033rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Cornelison?
    In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Cornelison identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Cornelison getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,547 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,617 in 2010, up 2.0%.