Cordel
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Spanish chain, a traditional Spanish and Mexican unit of distance equivalent to about 41.9 m
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/koɾˈdel/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Cordel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 130K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 977K
- BRBrazil1 in 1.1M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 128K (inferred from the name graph)
≈530 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Spanish chain, a traditional Spanish and Mexican unit of distance equivalent to about 41.9 m.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
How Cordel is read
(measured from records)Cordel is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French40%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Cordel in French.
- English36%
Spanish chain, a traditional Spanish and Mexican unit of distance equivalent to about 41.9 m.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish10%
string (thin thread)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cordel counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 128K | 61 | — | 2 |
| PH Philippines | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 225K | — | Cordel | 16 |
| BR Brazil | 194 | 1 in 1.1M | 194 | — | 2 |
| US United States | 143 | 1 in 2.3M | 481 | Cordel | 140 |
| DE Germany | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 600K | — | Cordel | 31 |
| NL Netherlands | 17 | 1 in 1M | 17 | Cordel | 4 |
| BE Belgium | 12 | 1 in 977K | 12 | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Cordel is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, from place name Kordel on the Kyll
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Portuguese, strand (short string)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Anton Cordelb. 1760DEGerman prelate
- Oskar Cordelb. 1843DEGerman writer (1843-1913)
- Nadège Cordelresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 194 | #37,693 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 156 | #105,905 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 143 | #120,901 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 142 | #126,357 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 102 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 96 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 82 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 75 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 74 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 73 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 61 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 58 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cordel mean, and where does it come from?
- Spanish chain, a traditional Spanish and Mexican unit of distance equivalent to about 41.9 m. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Cordel?
- In the etymology graph, Cordón is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Cordel?
- In Spanish /koɾˈdel/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Cordel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 529 people named Cordel in France, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Cordel?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 194 people named Cordel, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Cordel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cordelThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cordel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.