Kordell
Kordell was given to 30 boys in 2025, #3,712 among boys’ names; 1,767 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,730 Americans named Kordell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 13 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kordell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kordell?
#3,712 among boys’ names, 2025
Kordell fell from #2,944 in 2015 to #3,712 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 20.9 to 17.6 per million.
174 babies in 1998, the peak
Kordell peaked in 1998, when 174 boys were given it, #840 among boys’ names. The 30 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #3,712 | 17.6 |
| 2024 | 23 | #4,505 | 13.3 |
| 2023 | 35 | #3,383 | 20.5 |
| 2022 | 37 | #3,250 | 21.2 |
| 2021 | 46 | #2,756 | 26.3 |
| 2020 | 25 | #4,087 | 14.5 |
| 2019 | 30 | #3,677 | 16.7 |
| 2018 | 34 | #3,335 | 18.7 |
| 2017 | 31 | #3,552 | 16.7 |
| 2016 | 35 | #3,263 | 18.4 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | #2,944 | 20.9 |
| 2014 | 35 | #3,183 | 18.2 |
| 2013 | 54 | #2,348 | 28.5 |
| 2012 | 45 | #2,699 | 23.7 |
| 2011 | 27 | #3,849 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 46 | #2,663 | 24.0 |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,218 | 30.2 |
| 2008 | 66 | #2,101 | 32.4 |
| 2007 | 40 | #2,952 | 19.3 |
| 2006 | 33 | #3,278 | 16.1 |
| 2005 | 37 | #2,873 | 18.5 |
| 2004 | 44 | #2,513 | 22.2 |
| 2003 | 41 | #2,532 | 20.8 |
| 2002 | 65 | #1,777 | 33.5 |
| 2001 | 49 | #2,134 | 25.2 |
| 2000 | 62 | #1,770 | 31.6 |
| 1999 | 106 | #1,204 | 55.2 |
| 1998 | 174 | #840 | 91.0 |
| 1997 | 133 | #978 | 70.6 |
| 1996 | 126 | #991 | 66.5 |
| 1995 | 40 | #2,069 | 21.0 |
| 1994 | 24 | #2,990 | 12.4 |
| 1993 | 11 | #5,205 | 5.6 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,427 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,310 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 8 | #6,154 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,634 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,881 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 13 | #3,636 | 7.0 |
| 1986 | 12 | #3,774 | 6.5 |
| 1984 | 6 | #6,004 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,823 | 2.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,641 | 3.2 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,278 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kordell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kordell has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kordell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kordell, and how old are they?
1,730 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,767 Americans ever recorded as Kordell. The median Kordell alive today is 23 years old; half are between 13 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 1,339 people named Kordell (7 women and girls, 1,332 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,554 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 9 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 264 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,010 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 452 |
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).
How common is the spelling Kordell?
Kordell is a less common spelling of Cordell: SSA has recorded 1,767 Kordell and 10,988 Cordell since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 13,312 babies since 1880, Kordell is the second most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 107 babies (28%), again the second 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 Kordell
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 Kordell and names like it
- Compare Kordell and CordellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKordell peaked in 1998.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kordell since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Kordell.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kordell alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.