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Cordelia

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Cordelia is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 233 births. Its best rank was 204th, in 1880.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
2330.01% of girls
Peak year
2015286 births
Best rank
#204in 1880
Since 1880
12,646people given the name
Babies named Cordelia, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

12,646 girls have been named Cordelia in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2015, with 286 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1959, and the 2010s alone account for 18%. It has spent 71 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadegirls named Cordelia
1880s546
1890s575
1900s600
1910s1,087
1920s1,131
1930s839
1940s780
1950s772
1960s566
1970s352
1980s338
1990s367
2000s1,218
2010s2,276
2020s1,199

In 2015, its biggest year

Cordelia was the 949th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2015 were Emma, Olivia, Sophia, Ava and Isabella. See all of 2015.

Names that rose and fell with Cordelia

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.