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Girl's name · #113 in the US (2025) · Comeback
Cora was #15 in 1880, slipped to #878 by 1988, and has climbed back to #113 today. About 156,000 girls have carried it since 1880. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 51 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#48 in N. Ireland (2025) · #77 in Scotland (2025) · #86 in Ireland (2025) · #133 in England & Wales (2025) · #172 in New Zealand (2025) · #678 in Switzerland (2025) · #683 in Austria (2025) · #1,925 in Ecuador (2025) · #429 in Canada (2024).
Among 343 notable people named Cora:
Medical professionals appear 2.56× more often than among typical names — e.g. Cora Belle Brewster, American physician, surgeon, medical writer, editor (1859–1937).
Together with its spelling variant Kora (#491), Cora would rank around #82 with about 3,000 births last year — the newborns split about 80/20 between Cora and Kora.
About 190 boys a year are given Cory as their full name.
Similar names: Kora · Lena · Kori · Vera · Georgia · Lydia
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