Given name
Cordey
“a good-hearted woman; a woman of honesty”
Cordey is a variant of Cordelia. One Latin interpretation is “a good-hearted woman; a woman of honesty.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Cordey is a variant of Cordelia. One Latin interpretation is “a good-hearted woman; a woman of honesty.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Cordey is a variant of Cordelia. An origin associated with Cordelia is Celtic.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2008. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Cordey 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
Cordey through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 11 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2009. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 2008.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Cordey’s family of names
Cordey has a related form in Cordelia.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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