Cordell
Cordell was given to 77 boys in 2025, #1,977 among boys’ names; 10,988 Americans have been recorded with it since 1903 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,150 Americans named Cordell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 20 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cordell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cordell?
#1,977 among boys’ names, 2025
Cordell fell from #1,347 in 2015 to #1,977 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 67.8 to 45.1 per million.
387 babies in 1998, the peak
Cordell peaked in 1998, when 387 boys were given it, #531 among boys’ names. The 77 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 77 | #1,977 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 69 | #2,137 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 89 | #1,804 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 87 | #1,841 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 82 | #1,872 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 90 | #1,718 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 78 | #1,902 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 87 | #1,764 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 125 | #1,406 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 114 | #1,491 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (117)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 130 | #1,347 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 119 | #1,417 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 124 | #1,362 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 109 | #1,478 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 127 | #1,334 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 138 | #1,264 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 195 | #1,008 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 279 | #786 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 165 | #1,104 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 137 | #1,224 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 127 | #1,245 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 167 | #990 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 173 | #947 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 189 | #869 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 244 | #719 | 0.13 |
| 2000 | 285 | #640 | 0.15 |
| 1999 | 343 | #569 | 0.18 |
| 1998 | 387 | #531 | 0.20 |
| 1997 | 318 | #581 | 0.17 |
| 1996 | 302 | #595 | 0.16 |
| 1995 | 267 | #630 | 0.14 |
| 1994 | 216 | #709 | 0.11 |
| 1993 | 110 | #1,053 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 133 | #915 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 163 | #805 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 184 | #744 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 167 | #765 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 249 | #589 | 0.13 |
| 1987 | 257 | #563 | 0.14 |
| 1986 | 215 | #608 | 0.12 |
| 1985 | 63 | #1,182 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 59 | #1,190 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 68 | #1,081 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 68 | #1,108 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 89 | #956 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 82 | #996 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 85 | #960 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 87 | #927 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 82 | #941 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 80 | #934 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 108 | #800 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 91 | #843 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 83 | #875 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 57 | #1,071 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 81 | #905 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 84 | #882 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 88 | #823 | 0.05 |
| 1968 | 71 | #861 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 68 | #869 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 71 | #861 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 90 | #778 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 77 | #869 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 61 | #961 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 69 | #913 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 63 | #971 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 44 | #1,179 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 50 | #1,090 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 42 | #1,187 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 58 | #995 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 50 | #1,072 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 85 | #791 | 0.04 |
| 1954 | 55 | #1,008 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 49 | #1,036 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 63 | #886 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 56 | #935 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 52 | #959 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 55 | #935 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 52 | #965 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 45 | #1,082 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 52 | #925 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 54 | #852 | 0.04 |
| 1944 | 66 | #770 | 0.05 |
| 1943 | 55 | #901 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 57 | #867 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 68 | #752 | 0.06 |
| 1940 | 75 | #698 | 0.06 |
| 1939 | 57 | #806 | 0.05 |
| 1938 | 50 | #886 | 0.05 |
| 1937 | 31 | #1,187 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 36 | #1,073 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 19 | #1,599 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 36 | #1,100 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 49 | #888 | 0.05 |
| 1932 | 28 | #1,293 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 28 | #1,310 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 32 | #1,264 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 18 | #1,807 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,290 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 33 | #1,277 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 25 | #1,479 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 21 | #1,694 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,734 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 28 | #1,389 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 36 | #1,200 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 31 | #1,334 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 37 | #1,186 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 36 | #1,169 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 20 | #1,725 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 27 | #1,333 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 26 | #1,345 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 16 | #1,803 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 20 | #1,352 | 0.03 |
| 1913 | 12 | #1,599 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,645 | 0.02 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,178 | 0.04 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,243 | 0.04 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,092 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cordell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 10,988 Americans recorded as Cordell, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 77 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Cordell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cordell, and how old are they?
9,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 83% of the 10,988 Americans ever recorded as Cordell. The median Cordell alive today is 29 years old; half are between 20 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 7,482 people named Cordell (129 women and girls, 7,353 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,020 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 191 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 718 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,160 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,510 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,320 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,260 |
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 Cordell born?
The states with the most babies named Cordell are Texas, Florida and Missouri, with 81% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Missouri is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 8 | #1,945 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,377 | 0.8× |
| Missouri | 5 | #893 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,312 | 0.2× |
Where Cordell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cordell is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1910 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Cordell 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 13,312 babies since 1880, Cordell is the most given (83% of them). In 2025 it was given to 77 of their 107 babies (72%), 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 Cordell
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 Cordell and names like it
- Compare Cordell and KordellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCordell peaked in 1998.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cordell since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Cordell.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Cordell alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.