Cordero
Cordero was given to 12 boys in 2025, #6,880 among boys’ names; 1,816 Americans have been recorded with it since 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,750 Americans named Cordero and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 27 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cordero by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cordero?
#6,880 among boys’ names, 2025
Cordero fell from #4,574 in 2015 to #6,880 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.0 to 7.0 per million.
349 babies in 1987, the peak
Cordero peaked in 1987, when 349 babies were given it (340 boys, #481 among boys’ names). The 12 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #6,880 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 14 | #6,246 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,079 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,021 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,181 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,285 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,609 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,823 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 17 | #5,329 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 12 | #6,799 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #4,574 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 28 | #3,707 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,682 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 39 | #2,962 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 32 | #3,376 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 23 | #4,261 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 24 | #4,183 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 27 | #3,844 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 21 | #4,524 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,573 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,208 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 15 | #5,294 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,341 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 8 | #7,771 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,467 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,625 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,717 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,233 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 22 | #3,267 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 30 | #2,541 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 34 | #2,299 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 31 | #2,446 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 56 | #1,597 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 82 | #1,243 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 101 | #1,077 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 101 | #1,051 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 142 | #838 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 236 | #617 | 0.12 |
| 1987 | 340 | #481 | 0.18 |
| 1986 | 173 | #690 | 0.09 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cordero a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cordero has been given almost only to boys: 9 girls in 40 years of records.
Girls and boys named Cordero: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cordero, and how old are they?
1,750 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,816 Americans ever recorded as Cordero. The median Cordero alive today is 36 years old; half are between 27 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 1,331 people named Cordero (18 women and girls, 1,313 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,701 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,270 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 287 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 189 |
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 Cordero born?
The states with the most babies named Cordero are Illinois, Texas and California, with 44% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 226 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Texas | 132 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 81 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 73 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Mississippi | 72 | not ranked | 3.9× |
| Georgia | 66 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 52 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 50 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Alabama | 43 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Michigan | 39 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Cordero is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cordero is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1986 it was given 2.8 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 Cordero 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,794 babies since 1880, Cordero is the most given (65% of them).
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 Cordero
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 Cordero and names like it
- Compare Cordero and CordaroBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sCordero peaked in 1987.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cordero since 1910.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Cordero.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Cordero alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.