Cora

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Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls

Origin: Dutch

Meaning

Cora 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 ฮšฯŒฯฮท, an epithet of the Greek goddess Persephone.

From Wikipedia

Cora first appears in the data in 1953 and has been recorded in 55 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 1958 with 60 babies (rank #244 that year). It was not in the 2017 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Cora

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Cora yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

963
Total babies (all years)
55
Years in the data
60
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Girls

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
195334#333
195433#336
195542#301
195627#382
195725#404
195860#244
195950#281
196037#343
196131#403
196243#327
196331#406
196430#417
196534#388
196627#451
196750#322
196822#510
196936#387
197036#398
197129#430
197225#452
197318#508
197420#482
197519#487
197616#514
197715#531
197815#530
19799#713
198015#554
198118#512
198217#524
198313#617
19845#965
198513#643
19867#879
19876#936
19884#1,109
19899#800
19909#840
19913#1,287
19923#1,286
19932#1,405
19942#1,403
19954#1,169
19963#1,278
19973#1,280
19984#1,156
19991#1,674
20001#1,686
20011#1,683
20021#1,651
20031#1,602
20051#1,599
20061#1,573
20071#1,554
20081#1,536