Cora
Cora stands at #113 nationally in 2025, with the crowd thinning around it. An old entry (1880) having its biggest moment now, with 156,028 American bearers across the record.
What Cora carries
Cora · Greek
“maiden”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Cora’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Cora, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Cora since 1880
Cora peaked in 2019 at #71; #113 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Cora is most common
Cora is most common in Rhode Island: 0.69% of the state's recorded girls' names in 2025. District of Columbia (0.5%) and South Dakota (0.49%) follow.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Cora
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Catalina
#111 in 2025 · Greek
Damian
#109 in 2025 · Greek
Milo
#119 in 2025 · Greek
Margot
#102 in 2025 · Greek
Myles
#100 in 2025 · Greek
Lydia
#92 in 2025 · Greek
Angel
#67 in 2025 · Greek
Andres
#200 in 2025 · Greek
Browse: names starting with C · Greek names · all names
About Cora
How common is Cora today?
Cora stands at #113 nationally in 2025, with the crowd thinning around it. Every point on the chart is the SSA's own count, back to 1880.
What does Cora mean?
The gloss on record reads “maiden”, of Greek origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Is there a sibling name for Cora?
Catalina, Damian and Milo sit nearest to Cora on origin, era, syllables and first letter. Put your own names into the sibling matcher for a list scored against them.
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