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Cor

Boys' name

Shortening of Cornelis

Cor has been given to 7 babies in the U.S. since 1989. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1989, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Cor, 1989

1 in 549,000

Cor over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cor: meaning, origin, and history

Shortening of Cornelis

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cor means

Cor is a shortening of Cornelis.

Origin, language, and formation

Cor is used in Dutch.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cornelis and Cornelia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Cor is pronounced /kɔr/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7 boys were recorded with the name Cor between 1989 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1989; its best national rank was #6,332 in 1989.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Cor?

Cor had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1989, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1989
1 in 549,000
7 of 3,842,268 births
Among boys only
1 in 286,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1989
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
380,466 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cor sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1989 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 380,466 children born in 1989 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cors were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cor was born before 1989 — so the typical Cor is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
7
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (7).

Is Cor rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1989 (7)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#6,332
1989

Where Cor is used

Across 1910–2025, Cor was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 525,108 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Cor has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cor around the world

Where Cor ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1984–1984
    #455
    in 1984

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Cor by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#6,332
1989
Peak year
1989
7 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
7
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cor

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Cor

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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