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Cornell

boy name · English origin · 2 syllables

Meaning

surname-style name, forever tied to scholar and activist Cornel West

Popularity, 1890–2024

1890speak 1960s2020s

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Cornell peaked in the 1960s.

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