Cora Girl
How popular is Cora?
#113 girl name in 2025
2,428 baby girls were named Cora in the US in 2025, making it the 113th most popular girl name.
Cora popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #113 for girls (▼ 10 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 2,428 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-29% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #88 in 2015, #88 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2019 (3,602 girls) |
| Highest rank | #15 in 1880 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Cora counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Cora family of names ranked #101 for girls in 2025 (#92 the year before), with 3,230 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Cora | 2,428 | 75% |
| Kora | 603 | 19% |
| Korra | 153 | 5% |
| Korah | 25 | 1% |
| Corah | 14 | 0% |
| Corra | 7 | 0% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Cora is most popular
Babies named Cora per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- North Dakota: 6.5 per 1,000 (86 girls)
- South Dakota: 5.5 per 1,000 (78 girls)
- Rhode Island: 5.0 per 1,000 (63 girls)
- District of Columbia: 5.0 per 1,000 (59 girls)
- New Hampshire: 4.8 per 1,000 (88 girls)
Cora by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 11,954 | #15 |
| 1890s | 12,880 | #35 |
| 1900s | 10,372 | #55 |
| 1910s | 15,317 | #85 |
| 1920s | 16,161 | #137 |
| 1930s | 11,253 | #157 |
| 1940s | 8,749 | #186 |
| 1950s | 5,869 | #289 |
| 1960s | 3,393 | #460 |
| 1970s | 2,093 | #678 |
| 1980s | 2,224 | #724 |
| 1990s | 3,323 | #491 |
| 2000s | 7,745 | #303 |
| 2010s | 27,816 | #71 |
| 2020s | 16,879 | #75 |
Girl names about as popular as Cora
Questions
- Is Cora a boy or girl name?
- Cora is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Cora were girls.
- How popular is the name Cora?
- 2,428 baby girls were named Cora in the US in 2025, making it the 113th most popular girl name.
- When was Cora most popular?
- Cora peaked in 2019, when 3,602 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #15 in 1880.
- How many people are named Cora?
- 156,415 babies have been named Cora in the US since 1880. We estimate about 76,514 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 13.
- Where is Cora most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Cora was most common in North Dakota, at 6.5 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.