girls:
9 births since 1987
#5707 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.8k births since 1986
#2951 (36th percentile)
overall:
1.8k births since 1986
#5964 (23rd percentile)
The name Cordero is the #5,964 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,790 recorded births since 1986. This represents the 22.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 22.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,951 (35.6% percentile) for all time with 1,781 births since 1986. For girls, it ranks #5,707 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 9 births since 1987.
Cordero first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1986 (1986 for boys and 1987 for girls).
The name Cordero has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Cordero reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 39.3% percentile (ranked #433) with 174 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 174 births per million (ranked 39.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Cordero ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 2.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Cordero reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #798) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1987.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cordero".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Cordero. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 58.5% confident that Cordero is pronounced as kor-DEH-roh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KOR-deh-roh, at 17.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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