Cord (name)

Cord (also Kord, Coordt, Cordt or Kort) is both a male given name and a family name. The name is probably a short form of " Conrad ". The name Conrad (or Konrad) means “the bold adviser”, “bold advice” and comes from Old High German . It has been handed down in Middle High German as Kuonrât. The Latinized form is Conradus.

Well-known namesake

First name

• Cord Baxmann (1599–1690), landlord, town piper, merchant and protagonist of the legend of the Baxmann from Hessisch Oldendorf .
• Cord Beintmann (* 1951), German journalist, author and teacher
• Cord Borgentrick (* around 1450), citizen of the city of Hanover, who thwarted an attack by Duke Heinrich the Elder in Braunschweig-Lüneburg on the city fortifications of Hanover
• Hans-Cord Graf von Bothmer (* 1936), Member of the Lower Saxony State Parliament (1990–1994)
• Cord Broyhan († 1570), inventor of Broyhan beer from Hanover
• Cord Garben (* 1943), musician and music producer
• Cord Hinrich Haake (* 1805), founder of the CH Haake brewery, today's Haake-Beck brewery
• Cord von Hobe (1909–1991), retired lieutenant general in the Bundeswehr. D.
• Cord Jakobeit (* 1958), political scientist at the University of Hamburg
• Coordt von Mannstein (* 1937), German communication scientist
• Cordt Schnibben (* 1952), German journalist
• Cord, fictional character in the computer games Gothic I and Gothic II

family name

• Alex Cord (born 1933), American actor
• Chris Cord (* 1940), American racing car driver
• Errett Lobban Cord (1894–1974), American transport entrepreneur