Cordia

Where Cordia comes from

Cordia hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #628 among girls — 8 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1882
    Peak, #560
    11 babies named Cordia — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1886
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,108.
  4. 1984
    Cordia Tsoi born
    Hong Kong speed skater
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Cordia Tsoi · Hong Kong speed skater, born 1984

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.