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 1996 and has been recorded in 21 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 2015 with 213 babies (rank #235 that year). It was not in the 2024 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.

1,839
Total babies (all years)
21
Years in the data
213
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
199638#637
199718#1,082
199837#666
199955#525
200078#405
200143#606
200244#621
200366#486
200452#590
200561#547
200660#573
200752#667
200852#692
200974#538
201096#440
201193#461
2012159#302
2013149#316
2014206#243
2015213#235
2016193#263