Cordelia
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About Cordelia
The name Cordelia is currently ranked #981 in U.S. births. and peaked for girls at #204 in 1880. The name is most popular in New Hampshire, Oregon, and Massachusetts.
3 syllables.
As of September 2026, Cordelia ranked #981 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #204 in 1880, Nameberry popularity #157.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #993 | 267 | 149.5 |
| 2015 | #949 | 286 | 160.2 |
| 2016 | #1,005 | 263 | 148.4 |
| 2017 | #1,173 | 210 | 121.6 |
| 2018 | #1,035 | 249 | 146.4 |
| 2019 | #1,083 | 231 | 137.6 |
| 2020 | #1,006 | 252 | 155.9 |
| 2021 | #1,009 | 253 | 154.2 |
| 2022 | #1,051 | 242 | 147.5 |
| 2023 | #1,117 | 219 | 136.5 |
| 2024 | #1,065 | 233 | 143.8 |
| 2025 | #981 | 258 | 160.5 |
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Famous Cordelias
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Queen consort of Aganippus of the Franks
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British actress
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French designer
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Canadian,British,Australian psychologist/writer
- Cordelia Agnes Greene
physician/suffragist
- Cordelia Hawkins
for whom the town of Cordele, Georgia was named
- Cordelia Scaife May
American philanthropist
- Cordelia Adelaide Harvey
American Civil War nurse
- (Henrietta) Cordelia Ray
American poet and educator
- Cordelia Mendoza
American antiquarian
- Cordelia Strube
Canadian playwright/novelist
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American painter
- Cordelia Elizabeth "Betty" Cook
heroic American WWII combat nurse
Cordelia in pop culture
- Cordelia
legendary Queen of the Britons; character in Shakespeare's "King Lear"
- Cordelia Chase
character in both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
- "Cordelia
" novel by Winston Graham
- Cordelia
character in"The Seducer's Diary" by Søren Kierkegaard
- Cordelia Gray
the detective in PD James' mystery novels and movies.
- Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan
character in the "Vorkosigan" novels
- Cordelia Starling
character in video game "Lollipop Chainsaw"
- Cordelia Gi Randgriz (Valis: The Fantasm Soldier
video game)
- Cordelia Banks
PhD (State of Mind , TV show character)
- Cordelia Abbott
"The Young And The Restless"
- Cordelia Flakk
character in Jasper Fforde's "Lost in a Good Book"
- Cordelia Ransom
character in the "Honorverse" novels by David Weber
- Cordelia Capulet
Japanese anime character in "Romeo x Juliet"
- Cordelia Gallo
Japanese anime character in "Gosick"
- Cordelia Glauca
anime character in Tantei Opera Milky Holmes
- Cordelia Whinthrop
Scott, Character in the movie Monte Carlo
- Cordelia
pegasus knight from 3DS game "Fire Emblem: Awakening"
- Cordelia Foxx
character in "American Horror Story: Coven"
- Cordelia Underwood
title character in "Cordelia Underwood: Or, the Marvelous Beginnings of the Moosepath League," a novel by Van Reid, published 1999
- Cordelia
character in the anime "Diabolik Lovers"
- Cordelia
a song by The Tragically Hip
- Cordelia
a moon of Uranus
- Cordelia Carstairs
character in Cassandra Clare's "The Last Hours"
- Cordelia
character in musical "Falsettos"
- Cordelia Bellamy
character in the webcomic "Riverside Extras" by Miri Chamberlain
- Cordelia Rosewell
The Red Queen in "Habromania"
- Cordelia
a song by Flower Face
- Princess Cordelia Thebe
character in the video game "The Sims 4"
- Cordelia Cupp
Quirky Metro PD Detective in Netflix’s The Residence
- Cordelia Flyte
Character in the novel Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
- Cordelia
a song by Juan Arenosa
- Cordelia
a song by Lost Horizons, Simon Raymonde, and John Grant
- Cordelia Capp
character in the video game "The Sims 2"
Variations & nicknames
- CordiWelsh
More nicknames
- Cordy