Cordonnier

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Cordonnier is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France. Recorded meaning: seller of cord or ribbon, from an agent deriv.

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  • FRFrance
  • USUnited States
  • BBBarbados

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

seller of cord or ribbon, from an agent deriv. of OF cordon, a dim. of Corde. 2. occupational name for a worker in fine

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

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Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Cordonnier 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 French, shoemaker or cobbler

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, Le mot fut introduit en français sous la forme « cordo(u)an(n)ier », ce qui permet de mieux comprendre qu’il s’agissait de l’artisan travaillant le cuir de Cordoue. Le mot passa à cordonnier par attraction du mot cordon et remplaça, dès le XIII e siècle, le mot sueur qui avait le même sens.

    as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)

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)

18001850190019502000Jean Baptiste Cordonnier, b. 1820Alphonse Amédée Cordonnier, b. 1848Louis Marie Cordonnier, b. 1854Victor Cordonnier, b. 1858Louis-Stanislas Cordonnier, b. 1884André Cordonnier, b. 1885Eugène Cordonnier, b. 1892Antoine Cordonnier, b. 1892Denis Cordonnier, b. 1893Julien Cordonnier, b. 1980

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 17 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Cordonnier
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951730—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961682—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981634—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971607—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991572—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941569—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1921500—
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008478#3,199
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1931464—
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—436#3,604
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1901381—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020380#57,805

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Cordonnier come from?
seller of cord or ribbon, from an agent deriv. of OF cordon, a dim. of Corde. 2. occupational name for a worker in fine Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
What does the name Cordonnier mean?
Recorded meaning: seller of cord or ribbon, from an agent deriv.
In which country does Cordonnier have the most bearers?
Cordonnier is most frequently recorded in France.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cordonnier”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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