Cordelia Girl
How popular is Cordelia?
#980 girl name in 2025
258 baby girls were named Cordelia in the US in 2025, making it the 980th most popular girl name.
Cordelia popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #980 for girls (▲ 86 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 258 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (-10% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #949 in 2015, #1,006 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2015 (286 girls) |
| Highest rank | #204 in 1880 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Cordelia counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Cordelia family of names ranked #850 for girls in 2025 (#929 the year before), with 271 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Cordelia | 258 | 95% |
| Kordelia | 13 | 5% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Cordelia is most popular
Babies named Cordelia per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Wisconsin: 0.3 per 1,000 (31 girls)
- Tennessee: 0.3 per 1,000 (47 girls)
- Minnesota: 0.3 per 1,000 (32 girls)
- New Hampshire: 0.3 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- Virginia: 0.3 per 1,000 (44 girls)
Cordelia by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 546 | #204 |
| 1890s | 575 | #340 |
| 1900s | 600 | #375 |
| 1910s | 1,087 | #461 |
| 1920s | 1,131 | #615 |
| 1930s | 839 | #652 |
| 1940s | 780 | #741 |
| 1950s | 772 | #977 |
| 1960s | 566 | #1,226 |
| 1970s | 352 | #2,019 |
| 1980s | 338 | #2,391 |
| 1990s | 367 | #2,395 |
| 2000s | 1,218 | #1,347 |
| 2010s | 2,277 | #949 |
| 2020s | 1,458 | #980 |
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Questions
- Is Cordelia a boy or girl name?
- Cordelia is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Cordelia were girls.
- How popular is the name Cordelia?
- 258 baby girls were named Cordelia in the US in 2025, making it the 980th most popular girl name.
- When was Cordelia most popular?
- Cordelia peaked in 2015, when 286 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #204 in 1880.
- How many people are named Cordelia?
- 12,906 babies have been named Cordelia in the US since 1880. We estimate about 7,835 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 18.
- Where is Cordelia most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Cordelia was most common in Wisconsin, at 0.3 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.