Meaning not yet researched.
Cordero: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #481 in 1987.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #481 in 1987; #6,884 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cordero in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,884 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1987, at #481.
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Cordero: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 boys in 2025. Peak: #481 in 1987 · most boys in one year: 340 (1987).
In 2025, 12 US boys were named Cordero, making it the 6,884th most common boys’ name of the year, down 633 places from #6,251 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 14 boys named Cordero in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #481, reached in 1987. That year also had the most boys given the name: 340. For comparison, it was #4,576 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cordero in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1986 with 173 babies. In all, 1,816 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 900 babies named Cordero.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 129 US boys were named Cordero; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 17. In 2025 that was about 1 in 142,340 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Cordaro, Corderro and Cordarro 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Cordaro (491), Corderro (248), Cordarro (105), Cordairo (32), Kordero (20), Corduroy (5).
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 Cordero in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 12 | #6,884 |
| 2024 | — | — | 14 | #6,251 |
| 2023 | — | — | 8 | #9,084 |
| 2022 | — | — | 7 | #10,027 |
| 2021 | — | — | 11 | #7,186 |
| 2020 | — | — | 17 | #5,289 |
| 2019 | — | — | 16 | #5,613 |
| 2018 | — | — | 15 | #5,827 |
| 2017 | — | — | 17 | #5,333 |
| 2016 | — | — | 12 | #6,804 |
| 2015 | — | — | 21 | #4,576 |
| 2014 | — | — | 28 | #3,710 |
| 2013 | — | — | 12 | #6,687 |
| 2012 | — | — | 39 | #2,964 |
| 2011 | — | — | 32 | #3,377 |
| 2010 | — | — | 23 | #4,262 |
| 2009 | — | — | 24 | #4,185 |
| 2008 | — | — | 27 | #3,847 |
| 2007 | — | — | 21 | #4,526 |
| 2006 | — | — | 15 | #5,577 |
| 2005 | — | — | 10 | #7,215 |
| 2004 | — | — | 15 | #5,299 |
| 2003 | — | — | 9 | #7,348 |
| 2002 | — | — | 8 | #7,778 |
| 2001 | — | — | 7 | #8,474 |
| 2000 | — | — | 12 | #5,633 |
| 1999 | — | — | 11 | #5,723 |
| 1998 | — | — | 16 | #4,237 |
| 1997 | — | — | 22 | #3,272 |
| 1996 | — | — | 30 | #2,546 |
| 1995 | — | — | 34 | #2,304 |
| 1994 | — | — | 31 | #2,451 |
| 1993 | — | — | 56 | #1,602 |
| 1992 | — | — | 82 | #1,247 |
| 1991 | — | — | 101 | #1,083 |
| 1990 | — | — | 101 | #1,055 |
| 1989 | — | — | 142 | #841 |
| 1988 | — | — | 236 | #617 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,501 | 340 | #481 |
| 1986 | — | — | 173 | #690 |
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).