Given name & surname
Cordelle
“a good-hearted woman; a woman of honesty”·“one who makes cord”
Cordelle is a variant of Cordelia. One Latin interpretation is “a good-hearted woman; a woman of honesty.” Cordelle is a variant of Cordell. One English interpretation is “one who makes cord.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Cordelle is a variant of Cordelia. One Latin interpretation is “a good-hearted woman; a woman of honesty.” Cordelle is a variant of Cordell. One English interpretation is “one who makes cord.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Cordelle is a variant of Cordelia. An origin associated with Cordelia is Celtic. Cordelle is a variant of Cordell. An origin associated with Cordell is English.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1917. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Cordelle is a variant of Cordelia. The history of Cordelia gives this family its wider story. Cordelia is the daughter who remains loyal to King Lear in Shakespeare’s tragedy. The play is its central literary association; a proposed link with Latin cor, “heart,” is an interpretation rather than a settled derivation.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Cordelle through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 99
- 94 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 2002
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
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- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 2002. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 162 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Cordelle’s family of names
Cordelle has a related form in Cordell. Cordelle has a related form in Cordelia.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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