# Cordell (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/cordell/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 10,988 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 10,840 / 148 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 117, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1919 | 6 | 4,357 |
| 1922 | 14 | 2,514 |
| 1923 | 7 | 4,055 |
| 1924 | 5 | 5,227 |
| 1925 | 5 | 5,121 |
| 1928 | 8 | 3,487 |
| 1929 | 7 | 3,745 |
| 1931 | 5 | 4,448 |
| 1932 | 5 | 4,539 |
| 1933 | 5 | 4,342 |
| 1936 | 5 | 4,314 |
| 1937 | 5 | 4,376 |
| 1986 | 8 | 7,902 |
| 1987 | 5 | 11,668 |
| 1988 | 5 | 12,202 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 127 | 1,334 |
| 2012 | 109 | 1,478 |
| 2013 | 124 | 1,362 |
| 2014 | 119 | 1,417 |
| 2015 | 130 | 1,347 |
| 2016 | 114 | 1,491 |
| 2017 | 125 | 1,406 |
| 2018 | 87 | 1,764 |
| 2019 | 78 | 1,902 |
| 2020 | 90 | 1,718 |
| 2021 | 82 | 1,873 |
| 2022 | 87 | 1,841 |
| 2023 | 89 | 1,804 |
| 2024 | 69 | 2,137 |
| 2025 | 77 | 1,977 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 6 | 1,761 |
| 2002 | 4 | 2,636 |
| 2003 | 5 | 2,470 |
| 2004 | 4 | 3,009 |
| 2006 | 3 | 4,052 |
| 2007 | 5 | 3,095 |
| 2008 | 22 | 1,124 |
| 2009 | 12 | 1,749 |
| 2010 | 17 | 1,407 |
| 2011 | 13 | 1,688 |
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |
| 2013 | 4 | 3,822 |
| 2014 | 8 | 2,459 |
| 2015 | 4 | 3,908 |
| 2017 | 3 | 4,812 |

## People named Cordell

- Cordell Hull, American politician, U.S. Secretary of State from 1933 to 1944
- Cordell Tinch, American athlete

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.