How popular is the baby name Cornelia in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Find out using the graph below! Plus, check out all the blog posts that mention the name Cornelia.
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According to Statistics Sweden (SCB), the most popular baby names in the country in 2018 were Alice and William.
Here are Sweden’s top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2018:
Girl Names
Alice, 765 baby girls
Maja, 657
Lilly, 634
Ella, 604
Wilma, 600
Ebba, 597
Olivia, 581
Astrid, 565
Alma, 564
Elsa, 559
Boy Names
William, 863 baby boys
Liam, 834
Noah, 730
Lucas, 723
Oliver, 714
Oscar, 704
Elias, 697
Hugo, 683
Adam, 647
Alexander, 626
In the girls’ top 10, Maja, Alma and Elsa replace Saga (now 11th), Freja (12th), and Alicia (13th). One source mentioned that Saga’s decline corresponds with the conclusion of the popular Swedish TV show The Bridge (2011-2018), which featured a main character named Saga.
The boys’ top 10 includes the same 10 names, but in a different order.
The names in the top 100 that rose the fastest from 2017 to 2018 were Hailey and Lias (a short form of Elias). The names that dropped the fastest were Cornelia and Oscar. I also noticed that the ninth-fastest dropping girl name was Siri.
In 2017, the top two names in Sweden were the same.
On February 22, 1944, Spencer and Easter Hutto of rural Alabama welcomed quadruplets: Dianne, Yvonne, Spencer and Sherianne.
The quads were born about 30 days premature, and though they were said to be in “good condition” at first, none of them lived very long. Dianne, the first-born, was the only one that lived longer than 24 hours.
For the short time they were alive, their story was front-page news. And that was enough for expectant parents to pick up on the baby name Sherianne (and several variant spellings) in 1944:
Name
1943
1944
1945
Sherian
53
47
43
Sherianne
.
23 [debut]
.
Sherrianne
.
23 [debut]
6
Sherrian
7
15
15
Sheriann
.
8 [debut]
.
Sherriann
.
6 [debut]
.
The other three names saw decreased usage that year, ironically.
The Huttos, who had already lost a baby named Daphne prior to having the quads, did go on to have three babies that lived to adulthood: Gloria, Felton, and Cornelia.
Sources:
“Three Quadruplets Died in Decatur Hospital.” Tuscaloosa News 23 Feb. 1944: 2.
In the girls’ top 10, Saga, Ella and Wilma replace Agnes, Molly and Linnea.
The names in the top 100 that rose the fastest were:
Lo, Saga, Hedvig, Julie, and Ronja for girls, and
Kian, Henry, Love, Algot and Sam for boys.
The names in the top 100 that fell the fastest were:
Hilda, Cornelia, Elvira, Felicia and Linn for girls, and
Linus, Elvin, Rasmus, Felix and Jack for boys.
The sudden rise of Saga (from 21st to 4th) could be due to the popular Scandinavian TV show “The Bridge,” which features a character named Saga. But, as Maybe it is Daijirō (aka Maks) notes, the show has been around since 2011. Saga’s usage stayed relatively flat until 2014.
Also in 2015, the Swedish Patent and Registration Office (PVR) received 1,942 applications for adult name changes — a new national record. Znövit (Snow White), Lejontass (Lion paw) and Grön (green) were three of the new names requested last year. Sweden may be strict about names for babies, but name changes for adults are approved around 99% of the time.
The registrar of Providence, Rhode Island, published a series of documents listing all “of the names of persons deceased, born and married in the city of Providence” during years 1866, 1867 and 1868. The series may have been longer, but these are the only documents I could find online.
I’ve finally finished creating a set of rankings using one of the documents — 1867. But before we get to the rankings, here are some stats:
1,547 babies were born in Providence in 1867, going by the number of babies listed in the document itself. According to the document’s introduction, though, the number is 1,625. Not sure what to make of this discrepancy.
1,431 of these babies (713 girls and 718 boys) had names that were registered with the government at the time of publication. The other 116 babies got blank spaces. Either their names hadn’t been registered yet, or they hadn’t been named yet, or perhaps they died young and never received a name.
254 unique names (141 girl names and 113 boy names) were shared among these 1,431 babies.
And now, on to the names…
Top 5
A quick look at the top 5 girl names and boy names in Providence in 1867:
Top Baby Girl Names
Top Baby Boy Names
1. Mary
2. Catherine
3. Ellen
4. Margaret
5. Sarah
1. John
2. William
3. James
4. Charles
5. George
Girl Names
Notice how the #1 name, Mary, was bestowed three times as often as the #2 name, Catherine.
Twenty-one sets of twins and two sets of triplets were born in Providence in 1867. (All of these names were accounted for above — I just thought it’d be fun to check out the sibsets.)
Twins (b/b)
Twins (b/g)
Twins (g/g)
Triplets
Abraham & George
Charles & George
Charles & John
Daniel & David
Dunlap & Frank
Eugene & Timothy
George & John
George & William
James & John
John & Martin
Albert & Harriet
Ashel & Ida
George & Grace
James & Mary
Maurice & Ann
Annie & Fannie
Annie & Mary
Ann & Ellen
Jennie & Minnie
Margaret & Martha
(blank) & (blank)
Carl, (blank) & (blank)
James, Alexander & Sarah
I’ll post Providence’s 1866 and 1868 rankings as soon I get them done. Until then, here are two older posts featuring uniquely named Rhode Islanders: Aldaberontophoscophornia (b. 1812) and Idawalley (b. 1842).
The registrar of Providence, Rhode Island, published a series of documents listing all “of the names of persons deceased, born and married in the city of Providence” during years 1866, 1867 and 1868. The series may have been longer, but these are the only documents I could find online.