How Many People Are Named Cord?
people named Cord are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 196,202 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,842 babies named Cord in Social Security records from 1920 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
100 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
German contracted form of CONRAD.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Cord in English. Counting Cord and these spellings together, about 2,189 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Cord in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Cord alive today is about 31 years old, and 52% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 17 and 38 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Cord first appears in the records in 1920 and was given most often in 1990, to 100 babies. In 2025, 21 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1920 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Cord has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,055, in 1990. In 2025 it ranked #4,737.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #4,737 |
| Best rank | #1,055 (1990) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,780 in the 1990s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Cord alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Cord were born in Texas than in any other state: about 96 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Cord was given 3.9 times as often in Texas and 1.8 times in California.
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