Meaning and history
From an English surname derived from Middle English, meaning “maker of cord” or “seller of cord.”
20062006: 137 births, rank #1,224
2007: 165 births, rank #1,102
2008: 279 births, rank #786
2009: 195 births, rank #1,008
2010: 138 births, rank #1,263
20112011: 127 births, rank #1,331
2012: 109 births, rank #1,478
2013: 124 births, rank #1,361
2014: 119 births, rank #1,414
2015: 130 births, rank #1,346
20162016: 114 births, rank #1,491
2017: 125 births, rank #1,402
2018: 87 births, rank #1,762
2019: 78 births, rank #1,899
2020: 90 births, rank #1,716
20212021: 82 births, rank #1,870
2022: 87 births, rank #1,839
2023: 89 births, rank #1,803
2024: 69 births, rank #2,133
20252025: 77 births, rank #1,976
Cordell rose from #991 to #786 for boys between 2004 and 2008. Its highest annual birth count came in 1998, with 387 births.