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cord Name Meaning and History

  1. Northern Irish: reduced form of McCord.
  2. Possibly an Americanized spelling of French Corde, from Old French corde ‘string’, ‘rope’ (Latin c(h)orda, from Greek khorde), a metonymic occupational name for a maker of cord or string, or a nickname for a habitual wearer of decorative ties and ribbons.
  3. Dutch: variant of Kort ‘short’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of cord Families in the US in 1920
Number of cord families
 12-22
 5-11		 1-4
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Threads: 19 - Messages: 82
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My Mother's maiden name was Cord michaelmorelock 17
Henry Cord's Family Marty87111 3
Cord (Chord) family in Baker County Oregon sharon 0
E.L. CORD globban 5
E.L. Cord Dan Pellegrini 5
Mrs. Mary Carol Lynch Cord - Kansas City, MO - 1956 JohnWOBrien 0
Korte, Cord Marty87111 9
William Cord, b. abt 1868 in Alabama Margaret_McC 0
Vermont - Cord sanddollar160 0
Sarah Cord - James John Proctor lvierson 0
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