Cordellia
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cordellia has been given to 61 babies in the U.S. since 1921. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1921, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Cordellia, 2021
1 in 678,000
Cordellia 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Cordellia?
Cordellia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2021
- 1 in 678,000
- 5 of 3,389,958 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 328,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2021
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 469,949 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cordellia sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cordellia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Cordellias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cordellia was born before 1955 — so the typical Cordellia is around 70 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 32.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 24.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 45
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 32.8% of all recorded uses (20).
Is Cordellia 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1921 (6)
- Years since peak
- 104
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Spellings of Cordellia
Cordellia is not the most common spelling — Cornelia is, with 63.0% against Cordellia's 0.17%.
Cordellia around the world
Where Cordellia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia2001–2001#711in 2001
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Cordellia by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Cordellia
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cordellia
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.