Kordelia
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- kor-DEE-lee-a
- Origin
- Latin
- US rank, 2025
- #7,883 for girls
Kordelia is a girls' name of Latin origin. In 2025 it ranked 7,883rd for girls in the US (13 babies).
What does Kordelia mean?
Latin: spelling of Cordelia; from Cordeilla in Geoffrey of Monmouth; perhaps linked to Latin cor, heart
Cordelia is King Lear's loyal youngest daughter in Shakespeare's tragedy.
Meaning borrowed from Cordelia. More on Wiktionary.
Is Kordelia a girl's or a boy's name?
Kordelia is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kordelia in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #7,883among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 13about 1 in 120,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 13 girls in the US were named Kordelia, making it the 7,883rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. It first appears in the records in 2003.
It has been given to more girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had the most girls named Kordelia of any year since it first appeared, in 2003.
Half of all the girls named Kordelia in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 271 girls in the US were given Kordelia or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #880, up from #7,883 for this spelling alone.
- Cordelia 258
- Kordelia 13
Kordelia in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #7,883 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,266 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,855 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,193 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 7 | #13,827 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,485 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,319 |
Nicknames for Kordelia
- Delia 19 girls in the UK in 2025
- Cordie
Names like Kordelia
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Emilia Aurelia Rosalia Octavia Magnolia Luna Amelia Alivia Antonella Cecilia Olivia Analeia
Other spellings of Kordelia
More Latin names
Oliver Leo Roman Aurora Emily Florence Mabel Nora Rosie Max Nova Lucy Julian Clara Anthony Austin
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Kordelia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kordelia, updated 20 October 2026.