The cord Surname

cord Name Meaning and History

Northern Irish: reduced form of McCord.
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.
Dutch: variant of Kort ‘short’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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cord Family Facts

Distribution of cord Families in the US in 1920

Number of cord families

12-22

5-11

1-4

Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 19 - Messages: 82

Thread	Author	Replies
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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