girls:
148 births since 1903
#5568 (3rd percentile)
boys:
10.7k births since 1904
#1126 (75th percentile)
overall:
10.8k births since 1903
#2535 (67th percentile)
The name Cordell is the #2,535 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 10,837 recorded births since 1903. This represents the 67.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 67.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,126 (75.4% percentile) for all time with 10,689 births since 1904. For girls, it ranks #5,568 (2.6% percentile) for all time with 148 births since 1903.
Cordell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1903 (1903 for girls and 1904 for boys). Birth data for Cordell is available in 116 out of the 121 years between 1903 and 2023 (115 years for boys and 21 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Cordell has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.6% of all recorded births being male. Interestingly, until around 1904, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1903 to 1903), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (98.7% boys from 1904 to 2023).
For boys, Cordell reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 40.8% percentile (ranked #471) with 191 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 191 births per million (ranked 40.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Cordell ranks #828 for boys (9.1% percentile) with 48 births per million, which is 25.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Cordell reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #588) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1903, with 22 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1988.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cordell".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Cordell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 44.6% confident that Cordell is pronounced as kor-DEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KOR-dehl, at 26.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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