Cordero

At the 2020 census, 31,145 Americans bore the surname Cordero — 1,109th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 9,597.

By the numbers

People: 31,145
Rank: 1,109th
How common: 1 in 9,597
Per 100,000: 10.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

From Spanish Cordero, ancient surname originally used to refer to a shepherd.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Cordero described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 85.7%
White, not Hispanic 7.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 5.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Cordero

Luis Cordero Crespo (1833–1912)President of Ecuador
Nick Cordero (1978–2020)Canadian actor and singer
Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo (1925–2017)cardinal and nuncio
Rodrigo Cordero (born 1973)Costa Rican footballer
Eugene Cordero (born 1978)Filipino-American actor and comedian
Sebastián Cordero (born 1972)Ecuadorian film director
José Villegas Cordero (1844–1921)Spanish painter
Miguel Febres Cordero (1854–1910)Ecuadorian Christian Brother, educator and saint

People named Cordero with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Cordero

Also a first name

Cordero has been given to 1,816 American babies as a first name since 1986, peaking in 1987. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.