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cordell Name Meaning and History

  1. English: occupational name for a maker of cord or string or a nickname for an habitual wearer of decorative ties and ribbons, from a diminutive of Old French corde ‘rope’ (see Cordes).
  2. Americanized spelling of German Kardel (see Kardell).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The cordell name in History

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Distribution of cordell Families in the US in 1920
Number of cordell families
 44-86
 15-43		 1-14
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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