Meaning not yet researched.
Cordelia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 258 in 2025. Its best rank was #204 in 1880.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #204 in 1880; #981 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cordelia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#981 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #204.
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Cordelia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 258 girls in 2025. Peak: #204 in 1880 · most girls in one year: 286 (2015).
In 2025, 258 US girls were named Cordelia, making it the 981st most common girls’ name of the year, up 85 places from #1,066 in 2024. That is 25 more than the 233 girls named Cordelia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #204, reached in 1880. The most girls given the name in a single year was 286, in 2015. For comparison, it was #949 in 2015 and #980 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cordelia in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 58 babies with the name. In all, 12,906 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,277 babies named Cordelia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,411 US girls were named Cordelia; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 263. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,230 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cordelia ranked highest in Oregon in 2025, at #499 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Kordelia, Cordellia and Cordilia are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Cordy and Delia.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English and Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kordelia (110), Cordellia (61), Cordilia (22).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Cordelia is listed as a nickname for Delia.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 31 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | 7 | #499 | #433 |
| Minnesota | 10 | #513 | #486 |
| Iowa | 6 | #515 | #539 |
| South Carolina | 7 | #624 | — |
| Utah | 6 | #626 | #571 |
| Ohio | 15 | #648 | #916 |
| Missouri | 8 | #659 | #573 |
| Indiana | 9 | #668 | #874 |
| Washington | 9 | #695 | #852 |
| Tennessee | 9 | #762 | — |
| New York | 21 | #767 | #934 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #787 | #761 |
| North Carolina | 12 | #790 | #685 |
| Virginia | 7 | #962 | #506 |
| California | 23 | #1,121 | #1,150 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,136 | #640 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,259 | #789 |
| Florida | 10 | #1,349 | #2,159 |
| Texas | 18 | #1,369 | #1,199 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,456 | #1,319 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 258 | #981 | — | — |
| 2024 | 233 | #1,066 | — | — |
| 2023 | 220 | #1,117 | — | — |
| 2022 | 242 | #1,052 | — | — |
| 2021 | 253 | #1,010 | — | — |
| 2020 | 252 | #1,006 | — | — |
| 2019 | 231 | #1,083 | — | — |
| 2018 | 249 | #1,036 | — | — |
| 2017 | 210 | #1,173 | — | — |
| 2016 | 263 | #1,005 | — | — |
| 2015 | 286 | #949 | — | — |
| 2014 | 267 | #993 | — | — |
| 2013 | 201 | #1,193 | — | — |
| 2012 | 208 | #1,181 | — | — |
| 2011 | 181 | #1,302 | — | — |
| 2010 | 181 | #1,301 | — | — |
| 2009 | 175 | #1,359 | — | — |
| 2008 | 132 | #1,688 | — | — |
| 2007 | 111 | #1,878 | — | — |
| 2006 | 129 | #1,641 | — | — |
| 2005 | 149 | #1,433 | — | — |
| 2004 | 128 | #1,548 | — | — |
| 2003 | 150 | #1,350 | — | — |
| 2002 | 115 | #1,609 | — | — |
| 2001 | 65 | #2,416 | — | — |
| 2000 | 64 | #2,409 | — | — |
| 1999 | 46 | #2,903 | — | — |
| 1998 | 58 | #2,406 | — | — |
| 1997 | 32 | #3,563 | — | — |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,208 | — | — |
| 1995 | 44 | #2,742 | — | — |
| 1994 | 29 | #3,720 | — | — |
| 1993 | 34 | #3,303 | — | — |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,517 | — | — |
| 1991 | 30 | #3,555 | — | — |
| 1990 | 38 | #2,971 | — | — |
| 1989 | 42 | #2,670 | — | — |
| 1988 | 39 | #2,707 | — | — |
| 1987 | 39 | #2,584 | — | — |
| 1986 | 28 | #3,215 | — | — |
| 1985 | 30 | #3,023 | — | — |
| 1984 | 28 | #3,092 | — | — |
| 1983 | 29 | #2,919 | — | — |
| 1982 | 34 | #2,710 | — | — |
| 1981 | 29 | #3,000 | — | — |
| 1980 | 40 | #2,396 | — | — |
| 1979 | 30 | #2,874 | — | — |
| 1978 | 31 | #2,694 | — | — |
| 1977 | 31 | #2,675 | — | — |
| 1976 | 41 | #2,104 | — | — |
| 1975 | 39 | #2,174 | — | — |
| 1974 | 27 | #2,693 | — | — |
| 1973 | 40 | #2,027 | — | — |
| 1972 | 33 | #2,283 | — | — |
| 1971 | 41 | #2,037 | — | — |
| 1970 | 39 | #2,086 | — | — |
| 1969 | 40 | #1,983 | — | — |
| 1968 | 39 | #1,917 | — | — |
| 1967 | 41 | #1,824 | — | — |
| 1966 | 67 | #1,323 | — | — |
| 1965 | 48 | #1,624 | — | — |
| 1964 | 61 | #1,448 | — | — |
| 1963 | 54 | #1,523 | — | — |
| 1962 | 76 | #1,267 | — | — |
| 1961 | 61 | #1,430 | — | — |
| 1960 | 79 | #1,227 | — | — |
| 1959 | 67 | #1,307 | — | — |
| 1958 | 79 | #1,198 | — | — |
| 1957 | 77 | #1,204 | — | — |
| 1956 | 93 | #1,060 | — | — |
| 1955 | 74 | #1,157 | — | — |
| 1954 | 68 | #1,214 | — | — |
| 1953 | 78 | #1,099 | — | — |
| 1952 | 67 | #1,158 | — | — |
| 1951 | 83 | #1,022 | — | — |
| 1950 | 86 | #980 | — | — |
| 1949 | 77 | #1,019 | — | — |
| 1948 | 90 | #915 | — | — |
| 1947 | 65 | #1,107 | — | — |
| 1946 | 79 | #938 | — | — |
| 1945 | 68 | #916 | — | — |
| 1944 | 89 | #808 | — | — |
| 1943 | 75 | #898 | — | — |
| 1942 | 70 | #937 | — | — |
| 1941 | 81 | #802 | — | — |
| 1940 | 86 | #742 | — | — |
| 1939 | 87 | #728 | — | — |
| 1938 | 69 | #852 | — | — |
| 1937 | 109 | #652 | — | — |
| 1936 | 92 | #696 | — | — |
| 1935 | 77 | #769 | — | — |
| 1934 | 67 | #833 | — | — |
| 1933 | 76 | #756 | — | — |
| 1932 | 84 | #734 | — | — |
| 1931 | 89 | #711 | — | — |
| 1930 | 89 | #743 | — | — |
| 1929 | 95 | #723 | — | — |
| 1928 | 79 | #806 | — | — |
| 1927 | 109 | #697 | — | — |
| 1926 | 113 | #688 | — | — |
| 1925 | 99 | #744 | — | — |
| 1924 | 131 | #654 | — | — |
| 1923 | 129 | #650 | — | — |
| 1922 | 115 | #678 | — | — |
| 1921 | 141 | #616 | — | — |
| 1920 | 120 | #661 | — | — |
| 1919 | 146 | #573 | — | — |
| 1918 | 125 | #632 | — | — |
| 1917 | 130 | #598 | — | — |
| 1916 | 147 | #547 | — | — |
| 1915 | 135 | #551 | — | — |
| 1914 | 89 | #603 | — | — |
| 1913 | 94 | #526 | — | — |
| 1912 | 90 | #506 | — | — |
| 1911 | 56 | #574 | — | — |
| 1910 | 75 | #461 | — | — |
| 1909 | 69 | #447 | — | — |
| 1908 | 56 | #479 | — | — |
| 1907 | 61 | #458 | — | — |
| 1906 | 57 | #455 | — | — |
| 1905 | 72 | #397 | — | — |
| 1904 | 54 | #438 | — | — |
| 1903 | 52 | #443 | — | — |
| 1902 | 49 | #446 | — | — |
| 1901 | 51 | #421 | — | — |
| 1900 | 79 | #375 | — | — |
| 1899 | 62 | #368 | — | — |
| 1898 | 68 | #377 | — | — |
| 1897 | 71 | #348 | — | — |
| 1896 | 51 | #397 | — | — |
| 1895 | 54 | #380 | — | — |
| 1894 | 52 | #390 | — | — |
| 1893 | 62 | #341 | — | — |
| 1892 | 56 | #352 | — | — |
| 1891 | 51 | #349 | — | — |
| 1890 | 48 | #364 | — | — |
| 1889 | 57 | #325 | — | — |
| 1888 | 54 | #327 | — | — |
| 1887 | 58 | #279 | — | — |
| 1886 | 64 | #260 | — | — |
| 1885 | 58 | #262 | — | — |
| 1884 | 58 | #257 | — | — |
| 1883 | 51 | #252 | — | — |
| 1882 | 39 | #285 | — | — |
| 1881 | 49 | #219 | — | — |
| 1880 | 58 | #204 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).