Cordelia

What Cordelia means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Cordelia yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Down from #949 in 2015 to #980 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Cordelia?

US: Steady: #949 in 2015, #980 now. England & Wales: Rising: up from #860 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1880, when 58 girls got the name (#204 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 6,230 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 4,293 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in OR (0.54 per 1,000 girls), IA (0.51 per 1,000 girls), MN (0.47 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Cordelia is #980 in the US and #650 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Cordelia were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Kordelia13 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Cordelia

Girls

• Stella#52“star”^*
• Arabella#213Editor’s note Steady in the US: #194 in 2015 and #213 in 2025
• Lucy#24“light”^*
• Lilliana#445Editor’s note Down from #270 in 2015 to #445 in 2025 in the US
• Valentina#35Same root as Valentine, meaning “strong, healthy”^*
• Clara#63“bright, shining, clear”^*

For a brother

• Julian#25“Roman personal name”^*
• Atticus#281“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”^*
• Titus#358“honorable”^*
• Lucas#10Editor’s note Up from #16 in 2015 to #10 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 170 US boys in the 2025 records
• Blaze#781Editor’s note Down from #707 in 2015 to #781 in 2025 in the US
• Magnus#763“great”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Latin, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Cordelia’s. Rank is US 2025.