Chord

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — one syllable, given to 6 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
6
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Chord by the numbers

Chord was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 13 babies in 2012, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Chord

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Chord. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Cord20 in the US (2017)
  • Cloudcloud, mass of condensed water31 in the US (2017)
  • Cheridear or beloved; form of Chère8 in the US (2017)
  • Chaddwarlike or fierce; variant of Chad6 in the US (2017)
  • Corde11 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Chord

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