Meaning not yet researched.
Kordell: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 30 in 2025. Its best rank was #841 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #841 in 1998; #3,713 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kordell in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,713 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #841.
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Kordell: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 30 boys in 2025. Peak: #841 in 1998 · most boys in one year: 174 (1998).
In 2025, 30 US boys were named Kordell, making it the 3,713th most common boys’ name of the year, up 796 places from #4,509 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 23 boys named Kordell in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #841, reached in 1998. That year also had the most boys given the name: 174. For comparison, it was #2,945 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kordell in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1967 with 5 babies. In all, 1,767 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 640 babies named Kordell.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 326 US boys were named Kordell; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 46. In 2025 that was about 1 in 56,936 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Cordell (10,988 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kordale 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: Kordale (43).
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 Kordell 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 | — | — | 30 | #3,713 |
| 2024 | — | — | 23 | #4,509 |
| 2023 | — | — | 35 | #3,385 |
| 2022 | — | — | 37 | #3,252 |
| 2021 | — | — | 46 | #2,757 |
| 2020 | — | — | 25 | #4,091 |
| 2019 | — | — | 30 | #3,680 |
| 2018 | — | — | 34 | #3,339 |
| 2017 | — | — | 31 | #3,556 |
| 2016 | — | — | 35 | #3,264 |
| 2015 | — | — | 40 | #2,945 |
| 2014 | — | — | 35 | #3,185 |
| 2013 | — | — | 54 | #2,349 |
| 2012 | — | — | 45 | #2,700 |
| 2011 | — | — | 27 | #3,851 |
| 2010 | — | — | 46 | #2,664 |
| 2009 | — | — | 60 | #2,219 |
| 2008 | — | — | 66 | #2,102 |
| 2007 | — | — | 40 | #2,954 |
| 2006 | — | — | 33 | #3,280 |
| 2005 | — | — | 37 | #2,877 |
| 2004 | — | — | 44 | #2,517 |
| 2003 | — | — | 41 | #2,536 |
| 2002 | — | — | 65 | #1,780 |
| 2001 | — | — | 49 | #2,138 |
| 2000 | — | — | 62 | #1,774 |
| 1999 | — | — | 106 | #1,206 |
| 1998 | — | — | 174 | #841 |
| 1997 | — | — | 133 | #980 |
| 1996 | — | — | 126 | #993 |
| 1995 | — | — | 40 | #2,074 |
| 1994 | — | — | 24 | #2,996 |
| 1993 | — | — | 11 | #5,211 |
| 1992 | — | — | 8 | #6,434 |
| 1991 | — | — | 10 | #5,317 |
| 1990 | — | — | 8 | #6,161 |
| 1989 | — | — | 5 | #8,642 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #6,888 |
| 1987 | — | — | 13 | #3,641 |
| 1986 | — | — | 12 | #3,778 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #6,008 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,825 |
| 1974 | — | — | 5 | #5,643 |
| 1967 | — | — | 5 | #4,279 |
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).