Cordelia — #1064 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Cordelia

The Social Security Administration has registered 12,646 babies named Cordelia between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Cordelia currently holds the #1064 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 286 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cordelia performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,276 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Cordelia shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 778 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Cordelia in 39 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cordelia in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 12,646 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.