Cordelia
#980 for girls in 2025, 258 births
- Peak · girls
- 1880 · 58 births
- Debut · girls
- 58 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 12,906since 1880
Cordelia over time
Rank among girls' names. Cordelia has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #980 | 258 |
| 2024 | #1,066 | 233 |
| 2023 | #1,117 | 220 |
| 2022 | #1,052 | 242 |
| 2021 | #1,010 | 253 |
| 2020 | #1,006 | 252 |
| 2019 | #1,083 | 231 |
| 2018 | #1,035 | 249 |
| 2017 | #1,172 | 210 |
| 2016 | #1,005 | 263 |
| 2015 | #949 | 286 |
| 2014 | #993 | 267 |
| 2013 | #1,192 | 201 |
| 2012 | #1,179 | 208 |
| 2011 | #1,301 | 181 |
| 2010 | #1,299 | 181 |
| 2009 | #1,358 | 175 |
| 2008 | #1,685 | 132 |
| 2007 | #1,877 | 111 |
| 2006 | #1,639 | 129 |
| 2005 | #1,432 | 149 |
| 2004 | #1,546 | 128 |
| 2003 | #1,348 | 150 |
| 2002 | #1,606 | 115 |
| 2001 | #2,411 | 65 |
| 2000 | #2,403 | 64 |
| 1999 | #2,896 | 46 |
| 1998 | #2,398 | 58 |
| 1997 | #3,547 | 32 |
| 1996 | #4,184 | 25 |
| 1995 | #2,735 | 44 |
| 1994 | #3,704 | 29 |
| 1993 | #3,290 | 34 |
| 1992 | #3,503 | 31 |
| 1991 | #3,540 | 30 |
| 1990 | #2,957 | 38 |
| 1989 | #2,658 | 42 |
| 1988 | #2,700 | 39 |
| 1987 | #2,572 | 39 |
| 1986 | #3,203 | 28 |
| 1985 | #3,008 | 30 |
| 1984 | #3,069 | 28 |
| 1983 | #2,910 | 29 |
| 1982 | #2,704 | 34 |
| 1981 | #2,986 | 29 |
| 1980 | #2,391 | 40 |
| 1979 | #2,860 | 30 |
| 1978 | #2,680 | 31 |
| 1977 | #2,666 | 31 |
| 1976 | #2,099 | 41 |
| 1975 | #2,169 | 39 |
| 1974 | #2,683 | 27 |
| 1973 | #2,019 | 40 |
| 1972 | #2,276 | 33 |
| 1971 | #2,035 | 41 |
| 1970 | #2,081 | 39 |
| 1969 | #1,980 | 40 |
| 1968 | #1,909 | 39 |
| 1967 | #1,821 | 41 |
| 1966 | #1,320 | 67 |
| 1965 | #1,622 | 48 |
| 1964 | #1,443 | 61 |
| 1963 | #1,522 | 54 |
| 1962 | #1,266 | 76 |
| 1961 | #1,428 | 61 |
| 1960 | #1,227 | 79 |
| 1959 | #1,306 | 67 |
| 1958 | #1,196 | 79 |
| 1957 | #1,202 | 77 |
| 1956 | #1,058 | 93 |
| 1955 | #1,157 | 74 |
| 1954 | #1,213 | 68 |
| 1953 | #1,099 | 78 |
| 1952 | #1,156 | 67 |
| 1951 | #1,019 | 83 |
| 1950 | #978 | 86 |
| 1949 | #1,018 | 77 |
| 1948 | #914 | 90 |
| 1947 | #1,106 | 65 |
| 1946 | #936 | 79 |
| 1945 | #914 | 68 |
| 1944 | #808 | 89 |
| 1943 | #898 | 75 |
| 1942 | #936 | 70 |
| 1941 | #802 | 81 |
| 1940 | #741 | 86 |
| 1939 | #727 | 87 |
| 1938 | #851 | 69 |
| 1937 | #652 | 109 |
| 1936 | #695 | 92 |
| 1935 | #769 | 77 |
| 1934 | #831 | 67 |
| 1933 | #756 | 76 |
| 1932 | #734 | 84 |
| 1931 | #708 | 89 |
| 1930 | #743 | 89 |
| 1929 | #721 | 95 |
| 1928 | #805 | 79 |
| 1927 | #696 | 109 |
| 1926 | #686 | 113 |
| 1925 | #743 | 99 |
| 1924 | #653 | 131 |
| 1923 | #649 | 129 |
| 1922 | #678 | 115 |
| 1921 | #615 | 141 |
| 1920 | #661 | 120 |
| 1919 | #573 | 146 |
| 1918 | #632 | 125 |
| 1917 | #598 | 130 |
| 1916 | #547 | 147 |
| 1915 | #551 | 135 |
| 1914 | #601 | 89 |
| 1913 | #525 | 94 |
| 1912 | #503 | 90 |
| 1911 | #573 | 56 |
| 1910 | #461 | 75 |
| 1909 | #445 | 69 |
| 1908 | #479 | 56 |
| 1907 | #458 | 61 |
| 1906 | #453 | 57 |
| 1905 | #397 | 72 |
| 1904 | #438 | 54 |
| 1903 | #442 | 52 |
| 1902 | #445 | 49 |
| 1901 | #421 | 51 |
| 1900 | #375 | 79 |
| 1899 | #368 | 62 |
| 1898 | #377 | 68 |
| 1897 | #348 | 71 |
| 1896 | #396 | 51 |
| 1895 | #379 | 54 |
| 1894 | #390 | 52 |
| 1893 | #340 | 62 |
| 1892 | #351 | 56 |
| 1891 | #349 | 51 |
| 1890 | #364 | 48 |
| 1889 | #324 | 57 |
| 1888 | #327 | 54 |
| 1887 | #278 | 58 |
| 1886 | #260 | 64 |
| 1885 | #262 | 58 |
| 1884 | #257 | 58 |
| 1883 | #252 | 51 |
| 1882 | #285 | 39 |
| 1881 | #219 | 49 |
| 1880 | #204 | 58 |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Cordelia was already there! It came in at #204, and was given to 58 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1996–1997, when fewer than 33 girls a year got the name.
Where Cordelia is popular in 1938
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Virginia#403 · 1 in 4,766
- Pennsylvania#614 · 1 in 14,872
- New York#697 · 1 in 17,111
- Texas#865 · 1 in 11,541
Best ever in a state: #151 in New Mexico, 1921.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Virginia | #403 | 5 | 1 in 4,766 |
| Pennsylvania | #614 | 5 | 1 in 14,872 |
| New York | #697 | 5 | 1 in 17,111 |
| Texas | #865 | 5 | 1 in 11,541 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Cordelia
- 86 spots since 2024 (#1,066 → #980)
- 26 spots since 2020 (#1,006 → #980)
- 31 spots since 2015 (#949 → #980)
- Biggest jump: 199 spots in 2014 (#1,192 → #993)
- Biggest drop: 199 spots in 1938 (#652 → #851)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1880 at #204 (58 births)
- Births halved by 1974, 94 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 72 yrs · run 1880–1946
- Highest: 1 in 1,569 girls born in 1880 were named Cordelia (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 6,230 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 17.6% of all girls named Cordelia (2,277) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 546 | #204 (1880) | #267 |
| 1890s | 575 | #340 (1893) | #366 |
| 1900s | 600 | #375 (1900) | #435 |
| 1910s | 1,087 | #461 (1910) | #556 |
| 1920s | 1,131 | #615 (1921) | #691 |
| 1930s | 839 | #652 (1937) | #747 |
| 1940s | 780 | #741 (1940) | #907 |
| 1950s | 772 | #978 (1950) | #1,138 |
| 1960s | 566 | #1,227 (1960) | #1,554 |
| 1970s | 352 | #2,019 (1973) | #2,357 |
| 1980s | 338 | #2,391 (1980) | #2,820 |
| 1990s | 367 | #2,398 (1998) | #3,275 |
| 2000s | 1,218 | #1,348 (2003) | #1,731 |
| 2010s | 2,277 | #949 (2015) | #1,121 |
| 2020s | 1,458 | #980 (2025) | #1,039 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Cordelia in 1938
Top girls' names in 1938
More about 1938
girls
1,103,456 girls got a published name in 1938; 1 in 15,992 of them was named Cordelia, which outranked 83.0% of the 4,995 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).