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The CORDY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 726 30383 0 3
United States (1880 census) 125 27057 0 3
Change since 1880 +601 -3326 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 106 13634 0.001 6
United Kingdom 376 10903 0.001 8
Top States for CORDY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 110 11944 0.001 10
Georgia 94 7294 0.001 11
Wisconsin 73 12242 0.001 14
Florida 70 23216 0.000 4
California 57 37738 0.000 2
Top States for CORDY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 73 12242 0.001 14
Georgia 94 7294 0.001 11
Ohio 110 11944 0.001 10
Nebraska 12 19402 0.001 7
Kentucky 27 11115 0.001 7

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CORDY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CORDY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CORDY in Ohio than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CORDY by picking someone at random in Wisconsin than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CORDY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CORDY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the CORDY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CORDY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 497 68.46
Black/African American 193 26.58
Mixed Race 18 2.48
Asian/Pacific 10 1.38
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CORDY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of CORDY in historical publications

CORDY. Ferguson derives it from O. Norse Jwrdi, a sword, but it is more probably local.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to CORDY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CORDY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CORDY

The following words are slight variants of CORDY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.