Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls
Origin: DutchCora is a given name with multiple origins. It was used by James Fenimore Cooper for a character in his 1826 novel The Last of the Mohicans. It is today most commonly viewed as a variant name derived from the Ancient Greek Κόρη, an epithet of the Greek goddess Persephone.
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Cora yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Cora ranked 15 in 1880, in the first year the SSA counted anything, which places it among the genuinely Victorian names on this site. Its highest birth count came 139 years later, in 2019, at 3,601 — the sort of gap that only appears when a name dies out completely and returns. Currently 2,570 births at rank 102, off 13% from that recent high, with 153,964 births accumulated. Only one bearer is recorded, and indirectly: Koko Taylor, born 1928, the blues singer, whose given name was Cora Walton. For a name with this much history that is a remarkably thin file, and it is characteristic of Victorian revivals generally — the people who carried them originally were rarely famous, and the people carrying them now are children.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 1,045 | #15 |
| 1881 | 969 | #18 |
| 1882 | 1,076 | #21 |
| 1883 | 1,081 | #24 |
| 1884 | 1,244 | #23 |
| 1885 | 1,253 | #23 |
| 1886 | 1,231 | #28 |
| 1887 | 1,257 | #27 |
| 1888 | 1,433 | #31 |
| 1889 | 1,365 | #32 |
| 1890 | 1,386 | #36 |
| 1891 | 1,343 | #35 |
| 1892 | 1,419 | #39 |
| 1893 | 1,308 | #44 |
| 1894 | 1,319 | #46 |
| 1895 | 1,295 | #49 |
| 1896 | 1,204 | #52 |
| 1897 | 1,246 | #49 |
| 1898 | 1,304 | #51 |
| 1899 | 1,056 | #58 |
| 1900 | 1,389 | #55 |
| 1901 | 1,027 | #58 |
| 1902 | 1,081 | #62 |
| 1903 | 986 | #70 |
| 1904 | 993 | #70 |
| 1905 | 1,044 | #72 |
| 1906 | 952 | #77 |
| 1907 | 969 | #80 |
| 1908 | 962 | #83 |
| 1909 | 969 | #85 |
| 1910 | 1,079 | #85 |
| 1911 | 1,022 | #91 |
| 1912 | 1,253 | #98 |
| 1913 | 1,288 | #103 |
| 1914 | 1,500 | #105 |
| 1915 | 1,683 | #119 |
| 1916 | 1,899 | #114 |
| 1917 | 1,737 | #126 |
| 1918 | 1,916 | #124 |
| 1919 | 1,940 | #122 |
| 1920 | 1,819 | #137 |
| 1921 | 1,828 | #140 |
| 1922 | 1,762 | #140 |
| 1923 | 1,691 | #149 |
| 1924 | 1,630 | #155 |
| 1925 | 1,679 | #150 |
| 1926 | 1,477 | #158 |
| 1927 | 1,493 | #158 |
| 1928 | 1,393 | #155 |
| 1929 | 1,389 | #153 |
| 1930 | 1,272 | #161 |
| 1931 | 1,185 | #160 |
| 1932 | 1,136 | #169 |
| 1933 | 1,157 | #157 |
| 1934 | 1,112 | #168 |
| 1935 | 1,071 | #175 |
| 1936 | 1,008 | #181 |
| 1937 | 1,141 | #176 |
| 1938 | 1,131 | #178 |
| 1939 | 1,040 | #183 |
| 1940 | 965 | #191 |
| 1941 | 1,007 | #186 |
| 1942 | 1,002 | #202 |
| 1943 | 874 | #225 |
| 1944 | 816 | #231 |
| 1945 | 752 | #244 |
| 1946 | 800 | #251 |
| 1947 | 848 | #259 |
| 1948 | 837 | #266 |
| 1949 | 848 | #264 |
| 1950 | 734 | #289 |
| 1951 | 672 | #300 |
| 1952 | 667 | #312 |
| 1953 | 647 | #323 |
| 1954 | 614 | #346 |
| 1955 | 576 | #365 |
| 1956 | 554 | #374 |
| 1957 | 516 | #407 |
| 1958 | 435 | #458 |
| 1959 | 454 | #454 |
| 1960 | 454 | #460 |
| 1961 | 419 | #476 |
| 1962 | 410 | #479 |
| 1963 | 403 | #480 |
| 1964 | 351 | #525 |
| 1965 | 373 | #493 |
| 1966 | 312 | #534 |
| 1967 | 235 | #620 |
| 1968 | 235 | #630 |
| 1969 | 201 | #703 |
| 1970 | 234 | #678 |
| 1971 | 222 | #687 |
| 1972 | 201 | #712 |
| 1973 | 196 | #725 |
| 1974 | 206 | #709 |
| 1975 | 182 | #775 |
| 1976 | 211 | #700 |
| 1977 | 223 | #699 |
| 1978 | 225 | #702 |
| 1979 | 194 | #814 |
| 1980 | 214 | #770 |
| 1981 | 221 | #749 |
| 1982 | 239 | #724 |
| 1983 | 225 | #730 |
| 1984 | 224 | #731 |
| 1985 | 221 | #768 |
| 1986 | 237 | #743 |
| 1987 | 195 | #873 |
| 1988 | 201 | #878 |
| 1989 | 247 | #782 |
| 1990 | 230 | #856 |
| 1991 | 255 | #803 |
| 1992 | 249 | #807 |
| 1993 | 297 | #718 |
| 1994 | 329 | #654 |
| 1995 | 313 | #679 |
| 1996 | 327 | #673 |
| 1997 | 325 | #669 |
| 1998 | 468 | #536 |
| 1999 | 529 | #491 |
| 2000 | 564 | #481 |
| 2001 | 604 | #460 |
| 2002 | 608 | #467 |
| 2003 | 695 | #434 |
| 2004 | 698 | #437 |
| 2005 | 673 | #452 |
| 2006 | 844 | #384 |
| 2007 | 918 | #353 |
| 2008 | 1,041 | #323 |
| 2009 | 1,100 | #303 |
| 2010 | 1,206 | #275 |
| 2011 | 1,555 | #203 |
| 2012 | 2,081 | #155 |
| 2013 | 2,586 | #126 |
| 2014 | 2,967 | #103 |
| 2015 | 3,403 | #88 |
| 2016 | 3,373 | #87 |
| 2017 | 3,445 | #83 |
| 2018 | 3,596 | #73 |
| 2019 | 3,601 | #71 |
| 2020 | 3,034 | #88 |
| 2021 | 3,005 | #87 |
| 2022 | 3,073 | #75 |
| 2023 | 2,749 | #93 |
| 2024 | 2,570 | #102 |
