Cordale
#10,932 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cordale has been given to 592 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #10,932 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1987, with 39 recorded.
Babies named Cordale, 2025
1 in 553,000
Cordale over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Cordale?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #10,932
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cordale sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cordale. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Cordales were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cordale was born before 1998 — so the typical Cordale is around 27 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 32.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 40.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 592
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 32.9% of all recorded uses (195).
Is Cordale rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −61
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,768
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.67×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 15.4%
- Peak was 1987 (39)
- Years since peak
- 38
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.1% average annual change
Spellings of Cordale
Cordale is not the most common spelling — Cordell is, with 82.2% against Cordale's 4.5%.
Where Cordale is used
Across 1910–2025, Cordale was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 876,176 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Illinois1 in —
- 2Michigan1 in —
- 3Mississippi1 in —
- 4Ohio1 in —
- 5Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Cordale has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Cordale by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Cordale
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cordale
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.