How Many People Are Named Cordelia?
people named Cordelia are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 44,181 people in the US has this name
Based on 12,906 babies named Cordelia in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
286 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From Cordeilla, possibly a Celtic name of unknown meaning. According to Geoffrey of Monmouth, Cordeilla was the youngest of the three daughters of King Lear and the only one to remain loyal to her father. When adapting the character for his play 'King Lear' (1606), Shakespeare altered the spelling to Cordelia.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Cordelia in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Cordelia alive today is about 29 years old, and 66% are under 30. Half of them were between 8 and 52 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Cordelia first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 2015, to 286 babies. In 2025, 258 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Cordelia has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #204, in 1880. In 2025 it ranked #981.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #981 |
| Best rank | #204 (1880) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,111 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Cordelia alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Cordelia were born in Texas than in any other state: about 576 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Cordelia was given 2.4 times as often in Kentucky, 2.3 times in Virginia and 2.2 times in New Mexico.
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