Cord
Cord was given to 21 boys in 2025, #4,737 among boys’ names; 1,842 Americans have been recorded with it since 1920 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,740 Americans named Cord and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 18 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cord by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cord?
#4,737 among boys’ names, 2025
Cord fell from #3,706 in 2015 to #4,737 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 15.1 to 12.3 per million.
100 babies in 1990, the peak
Cord peaked in 1990, when 100 boys were given it, #1,055 among boys’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #4,737 | 12.3 |
| 2024 | 19 | #5,099 | 11.0 |
| 2023 | 20 | #4,909 | 11.7 |
| 2022 | 24 | #4,321 | 13.7 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,394 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 18 | #5,071 | 10.4 |
| 2019 | 19 | #4,993 | 10.6 |
| 2018 | 21 | #4,628 | 11.6 |
| 2017 | 20 | #4,770 | 10.8 |
| 2016 | 24 | #4,216 | 12.6 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #3,706 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 26 | #3,920 | 13.5 |
| 2013 | 32 | #3,347 | 16.9 |
| 2012 | 45 | #2,685 | 23.7 |
| 2011 | 44 | #2,710 | 23.2 |
| 2010 | 38 | #3,027 | 19.8 |
| 2009 | 20 | #4,777 | 10.1 |
| 2008 | 20 | #4,745 | 9.8 |
| 2007 | 19 | #4,840 | 9.2 |
| 2006 | 16 | #5,343 | 7.8 |
| 2005 | 21 | #4,215 | 10.5 |
| 2004 | 26 | #3,543 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 23 | #3,744 | 11.6 |
| 2002 | 24 | #3,573 | 12.4 |
| 2001 | 20 | #3,991 | 10.3 |
| 2000 | 23 | #3,550 | 11.7 |
| 1999 | 25 | #3,190 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 31 | #2,660 | 16.2 |
| 1997 | 30 | #2,623 | 15.9 |
| 1996 | 43 | #2,017 | 22.7 |
| 1995 | 36 | #2,211 | 18.9 |
| 1994 | 39 | #2,085 | 20.2 |
| 1993 | 55 | #1,616 | 28.0 |
| 1992 | 51 | #1,674 | 25.5 |
| 1991 | 94 | #1,126 | 46.5 |
| 1990 | 100 | #1,055 | 48.7 |
| 1989 | 84 | #1,150 | 42.0 |
| 1988 | 69 | #1,226 | 36.0 |
| 1987 | 74 | #1,113 | 39.6 |
| 1986 | 45 | #1,495 | 24.4 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,098 | 5.4 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,634 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,444 | 6.7 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,737 | 6.1 |
| 1981 | 19 | #2,508 | 10.6 |
| 1980 | 14 | #3,125 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 18 | #2,600 | 10.5 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,226 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 19 | #2,382 | 11.6 |
| 1976 | 12 | #3,123 | 7.6 |
| 1975 | 13 | #2,931 | 8.3 |
| 1974 | 13 | #2,826 | 8.3 |
| 1973 | 28 | #1,661 | 18.0 |
| 1972 | 14 | #2,555 | 8.6 |
| 1971 | 38 | #1,380 | 21.5 |
| 1970 | 13 | #2,645 | 7.0 |
| 1969 | 13 | #2,438 | 7.3 |
| 1968 | 24 | #1,618 | 13.8 |
| 1967 | 22 | #1,665 | 12.6 |
| 1966 | 17 | #1,903 | 9.5 |
| 1965 | 19 | #1,816 | 10.2 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,674 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 12 | #2,436 | 5.9 |
| 1962 | 27 | #1,522 | 13.1 |
| 1961 | 45 | #1,183 | 21.2 |
| 1920 | 6 | #3,915 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cord a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cord has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 66 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cord: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cord, and how old are they?
1,740 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 1,842 Americans ever recorded as Cord. The median Cord alive today is 33 years old; half are between 18 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 1,579 people named Cord (18 women and girls, 1,561 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,655 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 70 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 250 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 715 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 418 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 284 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Cord born?
The states with the most babies named Cord are Texas, California and Oklahoma, with 67% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oklahoma is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 100 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| California | 76 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Oklahoma | 22 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 21 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Missouri | 14 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Arkansas | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Kansas | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Cord with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,309 babies since 1880, Cord is the most given (80% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 28 babies (75%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Cord
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Cord and names like it
- Compare Cord and KordBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCord peaked in 1990.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cord since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Cord.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Cord alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.