Cordellia
Cordellia was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 61 Americans have been recorded with it between 1921 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cordellia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cordellia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,770, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
6 babies in 1921, the peak
Cordellia peaked in 1921, when 6 girls were given it, #4,580 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #15,770 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,075 | 3.0 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,926 | 2.7 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,675 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 5 | #6,938 | 2.6 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,244 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 5 | #5,989 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,819 | 2.7 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,709 | 2.7 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,810 | 3.6 |
Every recorded year (12)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1925 | 5 | #5,120 | 4.1 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,580 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cordellia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cordellia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 12 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cordellia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cordellia, and how old are they?
An estimated 42 Americans named Cordellia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 129 people named Cordellia (128 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 40 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Cordellia?
Cordellia is a less common spelling of Cordelia: SSA has recorded 61 Cordellia and 12,906 Cordelia since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 13,454 babies since 1880, Cordellia is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 271 babies recorded by SSA was a Cordellia (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Cordellia and names like it
- Compare Cordellia and CordeliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sCordellia peaked in 1921.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Cordellia.
- Names starting with CMost given first.