Corlis

Last seen for girls in 1966 at #5,809 · Last seen for boys in 1934 at #3,679
Given to girls 93.8% of the time

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Peak · girls
1955 · 53 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
483
since 1945

Corlis over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201952peak #1,371, 1955girlsboysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1966#5,8096
1965#4,8318
1964#3,87912
1963#2,96018
1962#3,16116
1961#3,18916
1960#2,43224
1959#1,91834
1958#1,60644
1957#1,40756
1956#1,63742
1955#1,37153
1954#1,90930
1953#1,83430
1952#1,54039
1951#1,84228
1950#3,05212
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1934#3,6795
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1927#3,7806
1926#3,7086
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1922#4,3075
1921#4,3225
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First appearance
1945

The first year at least five girls were named Corlis! It came in at #4,556, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1945–1946, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Corlis
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1966
Rise & fade · girls
10 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1945
  • Peaked 1955 at #1,371 (53 births)
  • Births halved by 1960, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 36,515
  • Highest: 1 in 36,515 girls born in 1957 were named Corlis (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 282,030 girls born in 1966 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,371 in 1955, was only 1 in 36,892 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1950s
  • 76.2% of all girls named Corlis (368) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1945
  • Mostly boys until 1944, mostly girls since
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DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s15#3,448 (1947)#4,002
1950s368#1,371 (1955)#1,812
1960s100#2,432 (1960)#3,752

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Corlis in 1952

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#1,540
39 births · 1 in 47,547 girls

Top girls' names in 1952

  1. #1Linda67,082
  2. #2Mary65,629
  3. #3Patricia53,101
  4. #4Deborah49,811
  5. #5Susan41,348
  6. #6Barbara39,864
  7. #7Nancy31,739
  8. #8Karen28,956
  9. #9Debra26,832
  10. #10Sandra26,097
  11. #1,540Corlis39
More about 1952

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1,854,335 girls got a published name in 1952; 1 in 47,547 of them was named Corlis, which outranked 75.9% of the 6,389 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Corlis
  1. #1,523Verdell40
  2. #1,523Willette40
  3. #1,523Zenobia40
  4. #1,540Corlis39
  5. #1,540Arnita39
  6. #1,540Kenna39
  7. #1,540Louanne39
  8. #1,560Adella38
  9. #1,560Celine38
  10. #1,560Cinthia38

Tied with 19 names at #1,540; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1951
Risers
  1. 2,501Pandora#3,284#783
  2. 368Lise#1,314#946
  3. 353Vanessa#656#303
  4. 334Dorinda#1,170#836
  5. 332Mitzi#928#596
Fallers
  1. 380Rhona#988#1,368
  2. 342Sharleen#765#1,107
  3. 270Enid#908#1,178
  4. 237Allyn#988#1,225
  5. 230Sheron#908#1,138

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1952