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Cordero

About 1,816 American babies have been named Cordero since 1986, most of them around 1987. In 2025 it ranked 6,803rd. About 1,700 Corderos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 35.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Cordero boys named Cordero

By the numbers

Total US births
1,816
Estimated living today
1,700
Median age today
35
Peak year
1987
Best rank
481st
Rank in 2025
6,803rd
First recorded
1986
Girls / boys
9 / 1,807

How old the living Corderos are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,816 babies given the name since 1986, about 1,700 are alive — 96 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1990 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Cordero is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Cordero is most concentrated in Mississippi (5.6×), Illinois (4.5×), Arkansas (2.4×), Georgia (2.3×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1987

The most popular boys’ names the year Cordero peaked:

All the names of 1987

Related names

Cordero against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.