Cordero
#6,880 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cordero has been given to 1,816 babies in the U.S. since 1986. In 2025 it ranked #6,880 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1987, with 340 recorded.
Babies named Cordero, 2025
1 in 276,000
Cordero 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Cordero?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 276,000
- 12 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 142,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #6,880
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 191,493 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cordero 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cordero. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Corderos were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cordero was born before 1990 — so the typical Cordero is around 35 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 49.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 23.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,807
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 49.3% of all recorded uses (891).
Is Cordero 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
- −634
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,595
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,306
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.57×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 3.5%
- Peak was 1987 (340)
- Years since peak
- 38
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.3% average annual change
Spellings of Cordero
Cordero is not the most common spelling — Cordell is, with 81.7% against Cordero's 13.6%.
Where Cordero is used
Across 1910–2025, Cordero was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 119,950 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 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. Cordero has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Cordero by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Cordero
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cordero
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.