The Cordes surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 6,035 people carried this name — #5,742 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 48,800 people counted. That is up 2% from 5,889 in 2000.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 98 people named Cordes live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 87 people named Cordes.
12 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 15 départements, most often Gironde.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
81 people named Cordes live in Switzerland.
They live in 9 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
53 people named Cordes is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Cordes in American newspapers,
1915–1924.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 3,085,798 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Cordes,
with a public archive behind them.
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Jean Charles de Cordes 1570–1642 · writer -
Jean Charles de Cordes 1570–1641 · writer
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Jean Charles de Cordes 1570–1642 · writer -
Jean Charles de Cordes 1570–1641 · writer
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Jean Charles de Cordes 1580–1642 · writer
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Heinrich Cordes d. 1707 · teacher
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Cordes.
- Cordaro 1,202 · U.S. census
- Corde 159 · U.S. census
- Cordeau 188 · U.S. census
- Cordeiro 4,128 · U.S. census
- Cordel 143 · U.S. census
- Cordero 30,158 · U.S. census
- Cordier 785 · U.S. census
- Cordin 113 · U.S. census
- Cordoba 4,744 · U.S. census
- Cordon 2,912 · U.S. census
- Cordonnier 341 · U.S. census
- Cordova 45,305 · U.S. census
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