Cord
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — one syllable, given to 20 babies a year in the US.
Cord by the numbers
Cord was given to 20 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 99 babies in 1990, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Cord
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 Cord. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Cord
Names that are said the same way as Cord, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Kord9 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Cord
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