Cord Family History
- Cord Name Meaning
- 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’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 105,986 Historical Documents with Cord on Ancestry
- 39,220 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 27,082 Census and Voter Lists
- 6,027 Military Records
- 3,350 Immigration Records
- 30,307 Member Trees
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Number of Cord families
 13 - 24  5 - 12 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cord families
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10 - 17 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cord census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Cord census records
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