How Many People Are Named Cora?
people named Cora are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 4,538 people in the US has this name
Based on 156,415 babies named Cora in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
π Rare
Peak Year
3,602 births
Trend
Declining (last 10 years)
π Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Latinized form of KORE. It was not used as a given name in the English-speaking world until after it was employed by James Fenimore Cooper for a character in his novel 'The Last of the Mohicans' (1826). In some cases it may be a short form of CORDULA, CORINNA or other names beginning with a similar sound.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
β§ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Cora (99.9%) were girls.
π₯ Age Distribution
The average person named Cora alive today is about 26 years old, and 71% are under 30. Half of them were between 6 and 41 in 2025.
π Popularity Over Time
Cora first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 2019, to 3,602 babies. In 2025, 2,428 babies got the name. Over the last ten years, the number each year has been falling.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
π Rank History
Cora never made the top 10 girls' names. Its best rank was #15, in 1880, and it was in the top 100 in 42 years between 1880 and 2023. In 2025 it ranked #113.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #113 |
| Best rank | #15 (1880) |
| Years in the top 100 | 42 (1880 to 2023) |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #110 in the 2010s |
π State-Wise Distribution
People named Cora alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Cora were born in California than in any other state: about 5,184 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Cora was given 2.2 times as often in Mississippi, 1.8 times in Alaska and 1.8 times in Alabama.
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