Cordie
Feminine
Cordie is given to both — 2,064 girls and 167 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
The name most often given as the source of this one belongs to a character who barely speaks. Cordelia has about a hundred lines in a play of three thousand, is offstage for most of it, and her defining moment is a refusal to say anything at all. The silence is the character.
How old is the name Cordie?
Cordie was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Cordie alive today was born around 1914, making them about 111 years old. About 200 people named Cordie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Cordie most popular?
Cordie peaked in 1884, reaching #398 nationally. See the whole 1884 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Cordeilla to Cordie
The story of Cordie
The reading everyone offers is a folk etymology and should be treated as one. Cordelia is routinely glossed as heart, from the Latin cor, and the derivation is very tidy and almost certainly wrong: the name appears in the sources as Cordeilla, in a list of British legendary figures whose names are mostly Welsh or invented, and there is no Latin in sight. The heart reading was applied afterwards, by people who knew the play, liked the character and noticed a resemblance. That is exactly how folk etymologies are made — a good story attaching itself to a word that had no story of its own.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The fuller name's origin is not established; it appears in a medieval British chronicle in a different form and cannot be traced further back. Nothing reliable can be inherited, and the short form inherits that uncertainty entire.
How the name formed
- Cordeilla
- Cordelia
- Cordie
Pronouncing Cordie
KOR-dee
Two syllables with the stress at the front. The spelling is unambiguous and nobody hesitates over it.
Nicknames for Cordie
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1880
- Most girls named
- 191966 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #398reached in 1884
- Change vs 1980
- 0.0%5 in 1993, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Cordies among us
people named Cordie are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Cordie sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is short, warm and completely easy to say on first hearing.
- Cora and Delia both stand behind it as fuller alternatives.
- The spelling follows the sound with nothing to explain.
- No meaning can be given honestly, whatever other pages assert.
- It reads as a short form to many people even when it is the legal name.
- The spelling is recorded for a few boys, but nearly every child with it is a girl.
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Frequently asked
- How many Cordies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 200 people named Cordie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Cordie in 2025?
- Cordie is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Cordie with classmates?
- Cordie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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