Meaning not yet researched.
Cordell: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 77 in 2025. Its best rank was #531 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #531 in 1998; #1,977 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cordell in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,977 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #531.
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Cordell: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 77 boys in 2025. Peak: #531 in 1998 · most boys in one year: 387 (1998).
In 2025, 77 US boys were named Cordell, making it the 1,977th most common boys’ name of the year, up 160 places from #2,137 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 69 boys named Cordell in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #531, reached in 1998. That year also had the most boys given the name: 387. For comparison, it was #1,347 in 2015 and #960 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cordell in 118 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1903 with 6 babies. In all, 10,988 US babies have been given the name, 1.3% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2,423 babies named Cordell.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 898 US boys were named Cordell; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 125. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,183 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cordell ranked highest in Missouri in 2025, at #893 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kordell (1,767 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cordale, Cordel and Kordel are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Cordale (592), Cordel (440), Kordel (117), Cordelle (99).
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.
No nicknames listed for Cordell in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | 5 | #893 | #848 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,312 | — |
| Florida | 8 | #1,377 | #1,040 |
| Texas | 8 | #1,945 | #1,560 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 77 | #1,977 |
| 2024 | — | — | 69 | #2,137 |
| 2023 | — | — | 89 | #1,804 |
| 2022 | — | — | 87 | #1,841 |
| 2021 | — | — | 82 | #1,873 |
| 2020 | — | — | 90 | #1,718 |
| 2019 | — | — | 78 | #1,902 |
| 2018 | — | — | 87 | #1,764 |
| 2017 | — | — | 125 | #1,406 |
| 2016 | — | — | 114 | #1,491 |
| 2015 | — | — | 130 | #1,347 |
| 2014 | — | — | 119 | #1,417 |
| 2013 | — | — | 124 | #1,362 |
| 2012 | — | — | 109 | #1,478 |
| 2011 | — | — | 127 | #1,334 |
| 2010 | — | — | 138 | #1,264 |
| 2009 | — | — | 195 | #1,008 |
| 2008 | — | — | 279 | #786 |
| 2007 | — | — | 165 | #1,104 |
| 2006 | — | — | 137 | #1,224 |
| 2005 | — | — | 127 | #1,246 |
| 2004 | — | — | 167 | #991 |
| 2003 | — | — | 173 | #948 |
| 2002 | — | — | 189 | #870 |
| 2001 | — | — | 244 | #720 |
| 2000 | — | — | 285 | #640 |
| 1999 | — | — | 343 | #570 |
| 1998 | — | — | 387 | #531 |
| 1997 | — | — | 318 | #581 |
| 1996 | — | — | 302 | #595 |
| 1995 | — | — | 267 | #631 |
| 1994 | — | — | 216 | #710 |
| 1993 | — | — | 110 | #1,057 |
| 1992 | — | — | 133 | #918 |
| 1991 | — | — | 163 | #809 |
| 1990 | — | — | 184 | #748 |
| 1989 | — | — | 167 | #768 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,202 | 249 | #589 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,668 | 257 | #563 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,902 | 215 | #608 |
| 1985 | — | — | 63 | #1,183 |
| 1984 | — | — | 59 | #1,191 |
| 1983 | — | — | 68 | #1,081 |
| 1982 | — | — | 68 | #1,108 |
| 1981 | — | — | 89 | #956 |
| 1980 | — | — | 82 | #996 |
| 1979 | — | — | 85 | #960 |
| 1978 | — | — | 87 | #927 |
| 1977 | — | — | 82 | #941 |
| 1976 | — | — | 80 | #934 |
| 1975 | — | — | 108 | #800 |
| 1974 | — | — | 91 | #843 |
| 1973 | — | — | 83 | #875 |
| 1972 | — | — | 57 | #1,071 |
| 1971 | — | — | 81 | #905 |
| 1970 | — | — | 84 | #882 |
| 1969 | — | — | 88 | #823 |
| 1968 | — | — | 71 | #861 |
| 1967 | — | — | 68 | #869 |
| 1966 | — | — | 71 | #861 |
| 1965 | — | — | 90 | #778 |
| 1964 | — | — | 77 | #869 |
| 1963 | — | — | 61 | #962 |
| 1962 | — | — | 69 | #914 |
| 1961 | — | — | 63 | #972 |
| 1960 | — | — | 44 | #1,180 |
| 1959 | — | — | 50 | #1,091 |
| 1958 | — | — | 42 | #1,188 |
| 1957 | — | — | 58 | #996 |
| 1956 | — | — | 50 | #1,073 |
| 1955 | — | — | 85 | #792 |
| 1954 | — | — | 55 | #1,009 |
| 1953 | — | — | 49 | #1,037 |
| 1952 | — | — | 63 | #887 |
| 1951 | — | — | 56 | #936 |
| 1950 | — | — | 52 | #960 |
| 1949 | — | — | 55 | #936 |
| 1948 | — | — | 52 | #966 |
| 1947 | — | — | 45 | #1,083 |
| 1946 | — | — | 52 | #925 |
| 1945 | — | — | 54 | #852 |
| 1944 | — | — | 66 | #770 |
| 1943 | — | — | 55 | #901 |
| 1942 | — | — | 57 | #867 |
| 1941 | — | — | 68 | #752 |
| 1940 | — | — | 75 | #698 |
| 1939 | — | — | 57 | #806 |
| 1938 | — | — | 50 | #886 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,376 | 31 | #1,187 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,314 | 36 | #1,073 |
| 1935 | — | — | 19 | #1,599 |
| 1934 | — | — | 36 | #1,100 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,342 | 49 | #888 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,539 | 28 | #1,293 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,448 | 28 | #1,310 |
| 1930 | — | — | 32 | #1,264 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,745 | 18 | #1,807 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,487 | 13 | #2,290 |
| 1927 | — | — | 33 | #1,277 |
| 1926 | — | — | 25 | #1,479 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,121 | 21 | #1,695 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,227 | 21 | #1,734 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,055 | 28 | #1,389 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,514 | 36 | #1,200 |
| 1921 | — | — | 31 | #1,334 |
| 1920 | — | — | 37 | #1,186 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,357 | 36 | #1,169 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,553 | 20 | #1,726 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,448 | 27 | #1,333 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,017 | 26 | #1,345 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,190 | 16 | #1,804 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,956 | 20 | #1,352 |
| 1913 | — | — | 12 | #1,600 |
| 1912 | — | — | 10 | #1,646 |
| 1909 | — | — | 7 | #1,178 |
| 1908 | — | — | 6 | #1,244 |
| 1904 | — | — | 6 | #1,093 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,640 | — | — |
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).