Corliss
Recorded 1913–2003 · United States
Corliss was most popular in 1946, when 187 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,029 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,192 people named Corliss.
Corliss over time
How old is the name Corliss?
Corliss first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1913, which makes it about 112 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 83 of the 113 years since. It was last recorded in 2003.
How many people are named Corliss?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,192 American births named Corliss between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,157 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Corliss in 2025?
Corliss was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Corliss a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Corliss is mostly a girl’s name — 89.2% of the 3,192 Americans given it were girls and 10.8% were boys. It changed hands: since 1994 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Corliss?
Roughly 2,157 Americans named Corliss are alive today — 68% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 71 years old, and half are between 63 and 76.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Corliss is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org